1. Problematic Internet Usage and Self-Esteem in Chinese Undergraduate Students: The Mediation Effects of Individual Affect and Relationship Satisfaction
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Yi-Man Liu, Fang-Fang Zhu, Si-Ding Luo, Qian Huang, Zhen-Ting Chen, Zi-Ke Xiong, Sai-Fu Fung, Lijin Zhang, Ping Yu, Guang Zeng, Jingwen Li, and Zhi-Quan Jiang
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Relationship satisfaction ,China ,Mediation (statistics) ,Internet addiction ,Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis ,media_common.quotation_subject ,050109 social psychology ,Personal Satisfaction ,Affect (psychology) ,Article ,Structural equation modeling ,03 medical and health sciences ,positive and negative affect schedule ,0302 clinical medicine ,Humans ,multiple mediation model ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,Students ,media_common ,self-esteem ,Internet ,Internet use ,business.industry ,05 social sciences ,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health ,Self-esteem ,030227 psychiatry ,Behavior, Addictive ,Cross-Sectional Studies ,cognitive–behavioural model ,Internet Use ,Scale (social sciences) ,Medicine ,The Internet ,business ,Psychology ,Social psychology - Abstract
The aim of this cross-sectional study was to examine the mediating effects of individual affect and relationship satisfaction on the relationship between self-esteem and Problematic Internet Use (PIU). Affect was measured using the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS), relationship satisfaction was assessed using a positive and negative semantic dimension scale, self-esteem was measured using the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale, and PIU was measured using the Problematic Internet Use scale with a sample of 507 Chinese university students (Mage = 20.41 years, SD = 2.49). The relationships between the variables were tested using structural equation modelling with a multiple mediation model. The results revealed that negative affect and the negative semantic dimensions of relationship satisfaction mediated the relationship between self-esteem and PIU. The implications of the results and the study’s theoretical contributions are discussed.
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- 2021