The Effect Of Shyness On Mobile Phone Snub Behavior ——The Chain Mediating Role Of Emotional Regulatory Efficacy And Fear Of Missing Out

With the continuous improvement of the level of science and technology,smart devices continue to update iteration,mobile phone has become a part of people’s life,it makes the connection of interpersonal relationship unlimited by space,whereas because of its strong user stickiness,frequent use of mobile phone may lead to mobile phone snubbing behavior and other bad phenomena.Previous studies on the effect factors of mobile phone snubbing behavior mainly discussed the aspects of age,gender,personality traits,problematic mobile technology use and so on.The effect mechanism of mobile phone snubbing behavior is still unclear.For example,shyness may affect mobile phone snubbing behavior.By means of convenient sampling and questionnaire,1009 college students from three full-time undergraduate schools in Chengdu were selected as the subjects.The relationship among shyness,fear of missing out,emotion regulation self-efficacy and mobile phone snubbing behavior was investigated.Based on the comprehensive empirical research,the following results can be obtained:（1）Shyness,emotion regulation efficacy,fear of missing out and cell phone cold behavior were correlated.（2）Shyness positively predicts the mobile phone snubbing behavior of college students,the higher the shyness level is,the higher the tendency of mobile phone snubbing behavior is.（3）Emotional regulation self-efficacy plays the mediating role in the relationship between shyness and mobile phone snubbing behavior,namely,the higher the shyness level is,the lower the emotional regulation self-efficacy is,and the higher the mobile phone snubbing behavior tendency of college students is.（4）Fear of missing out plays the mediating role between shyness and mobile phone snubbing behavior.The higher the shyness level is,the higher the fear of missing out level is,and the higher the mobile phone snubbing behavior tendency is.（5）Shyness can influence college students’ mobile phone snubbing behavior through the chain mediating effect of emotion regulating self-efficacy and fear of missing out.In this study,we explored the mediating effects of emotion regulation self-efficacy and fear of missing out and the chain mediating effects of shyness and cell phone snubbing behavior.The results showed that shy individuals had lower emotion regulation self-efficacy,higher fear of missing out and more cell phone snubbing behaviors.This study contributes to the enrichment of empirical research on shyness and cell phone snubbing behavior.It is helpful to deepen people’s cognition of cell phone snubbing behavior,expand related research on shyness,and provide effective suggestions for reducing addiction behavior such as cell phone snubbing behavior.