The Mediating Role of Loneliness and the Moderating Role of Gender between Peer Phubbing and Adolescent Mobile Social Media Addiction
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Participants and Procedure
2.2. Measurements
2.2.1. Peer Phubbing
2.2.2. Loneliness
2.2.3. Mobile Social Media Addiction
2.3. Main Statistical Analyses
3. Results
3.1. Preliminary Analysis
3.2. Testing for the Mediation Model of Loneliness
3.3. Testing for the Moderated Mediation Model of Loneliness and Gender
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Variables | Group | M | SD | t | p |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Peer phubbing | Boys | 2.728 | 0.895 | −0.723 | 0.470 |
Girls | 2.773 | 0.917 | |||
Loneliness | Boys | 1.890 | 0.569 | −4.411 | <0.001 |
Girls | 2.089 | 0.734 | |||
Mobile social media addiction | Boys | 2.409 | 1.213 | −2.415 | <0.01 |
Girls | 2.707 | 1.295 |
Variables | M | SD | 1 | 2 | 3 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1. Peer phubbing | 2.753 | 0.907 | — | 0.343 *** | 0.154 *** |
2. Loneliness | 1.999 | 0.671 | 0.548 *** | — | 0.245 *** |
3. Mobile social media addiction | 2.571 | 1.267 | 0.508 *** | 0.433 *** | — |
Outcome Variables | Independent Variables | β | SE | t | p |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mobile social media addiction | Constant | 0.001 | 0.032 | 0.001 | 0.999 |
Age | −0.097 ** | 0.031 | −3.154 | <0.01 | |
Daily mobile phone use time | 0.170 *** | 0.037 | 4.575 | <0.001 | |
Peer phubbing | 0.339 *** | 0.035 | 9.828 | <0.001 | |
Loneliness | Constant | 0.001 | 0.031 | 0.001 | 0.999 |
Age | −0.091 ** | 0.031 | −2.954 | <0.01 | |
Daily mobile phone use time | 0.017 | 0.033 | 0.534 | 0.594 | |
Peer phubbing | 0.453 *** | 0.037 | 12.375 | <0.001 | |
Mobile social media addiction | Constant | 0.001 | 0.031 | 0.001 | 0.999 |
Age | −0.074 * | 0.030 | −2.483 | <0.05 | |
Daily mobile phone use time | 0.166 *** | 0.035 | 4.684 | <0.001 | |
Peer phubbing | 0.225 *** | 0.037 | 6.033 | <0.001 | |
Loneliness | 0.252 *** | 0.039 | 6.533 | <0.001 |
Regression Models | β | SE | t | p |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mediator variable model for predicting loneliness | ||||
Constant | −0.004 | 0.030 | −0.125 | 0.901 |
Age | −0.078 | 0.031 | −2.525 | 0.012 |
Daily mobile phone use time | 0.015 | 0.031 | 0.488 | 0.626 |
Gender | 0.256 *** | 0.060 | 4.259 | <0.001 |
Peer phubbing | 0.448 *** | 0.034 | 13.021 | <0.001 |
Peer phubbing × Gender | 0.300 *** | 0.069 | 4.336 | <0.001 |
Dependent variable model for predicting mobile social media addiction | ||||
Constant | −0.004 | 0.031 | −0.121 | 0.904 |
Age | −0.071 | 0.030 | −2.380 | 0.018 |
Gender | 0.147 * | 0.064 | 2.302 | <0.05 |
Peer phubbing | 0.238 *** | 0.035 | 6.732 | <0.001 |
Loneliness | 0.212 *** | 0.040 | 5.293 | <0.001 |
Peer phubbing × Gender | 0.296 *** | 0.066 | 4.465 | <0.001 |
Conditional direct effect analysis at values of the moderator (gender) | β | Boot SE | BootLLCI | BootULCI |
Boys | 0.077 | 0.051 | −0.023 | 0.176 |
Girls | 0.373 *** | 0.046 | 0.282 | 0.464 |
Conditional indirect effect analysis at values of the moderator (gender) | β | Boot SE | BootLLCI | BootULCI |
Boys | 0.060 ** | 0.015 | 0.035 | 0.095 |
Girls | 0.124 *** | 0.025 | 0.078 | 0.178 |
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Xu, X.-P.; Liu, Q.-Q.; Li, Z.-H.; Yang, W.-X. The Mediating Role of Loneliness and the Moderating Role of Gender between Peer Phubbing and Adolescent Mobile Social Media Addiction. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19, 10176. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191610176
Xu X-P, Liu Q-Q, Li Z-H, Yang W-X. The Mediating Role of Loneliness and the Moderating Role of Gender between Peer Phubbing and Adolescent Mobile Social Media Addiction. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2022; 19(16):10176. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191610176
Chicago/Turabian StyleXu, Xiao-Pan, Qing-Qi Liu, Zhen-Hua Li, and Wen-Xian Yang. 2022. "The Mediating Role of Loneliness and the Moderating Role of Gender between Peer Phubbing and Adolescent Mobile Social Media Addiction" International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19, no. 16: 10176. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191610176