The Behavior Intention And Impact Factors Of Mobile Phone Involvement In University Students

As the technology of mobile phone increases rapidly,mobile phone is integrated into university student's daily life,and significantly impacts university students' study,social cognitive and communication.A series of mobile phone involvement problems resulted from high level mobile phone use can not be neglected.Mobile phone involvement becomes the hot point of psychological and sociological researches.Mobile phone involvement,defined as inappropriate use of mobile phone or mobile phone addiction,is broadly viewed as a subset of behavioral or technical addiction which could lead to significant social and emotional impairment.Based on present studies on mobile phone involvement,this study attempts to understand the behavior intention and impact factors of university students' mobile phone involvement.It is important for health professionals and education authorities to understand mobile phone involvement and such associations in order to implement effective strategies to reduce its harmful impact on university students.Objective The aim of this study is to examine university students' engagement in high level mobile phone use based on the theory of planned behavior and conducting an assessment of people's high level mobile phone use.This study try to examine the frequency of mobile phone involvement in university students and explore its association with impulsivity,selfregulation and social support.The final reseach objective is to implement effective strategies to prevent the harmful impact of mobile phone involvement on university students.This study provide a scientific basis for mobile phone related studies and improve intervention countermeasures of mobile phone involvement for health professionals.Methods Cluster sample of 978 university students participated in high level mobile phone use behavioral intention study and revised high level mobile phone use scale.Based on extended theory of planned behavior,this study comprised a main questionnaire and a second wave questionnaire.The main questionnaire assessed the theory of planned behavior variables(behavioral attitude,subjective norm and perceived behavioral control),salient belief variables(attitude belief,norm belief and control belief)and extended variables(past behavior,mobile phone involvement and anticipate regret).Two weeks later,the second wave questionnaire assessed the level of self-report high level mobile phone use during the previous fortnight.Structure equaling model was conducted to explore high level mobile phone use based on theory of planned behavior.Cluster sample of 1067 university students participated in the impact factors of mobile phone involvement study.Structure equaling model was conducted to explore the association among mobile phone involvement with impulsivity,regulatory focus and social support in university students.Results 1.Based on standard theory of planned behavior measures,this study conducted high level mobile phone use behavioral intention questionnaire.This questionnaire concluded two sub-scales: theory ofplanned behavior item scale and salient belief scale.Theory of planned behavior item scale comprised 10 items in four areas: Attitude,Subjective Norm,Perceived Behavioral control and Intention.And salient belief scale comprised 22 items in three areas: Behavioral Beliefs,Normative Beliefs and Control Beliefs.Confirmatory factor analysis and exploratory factor analysis supported the questionnaire.It suggested that high level mobile phne use behavioral intention questionnaire has satisfactory reliability and validity.2.The results of high level mobile phone use behavioral intention indicated that high level mobile phone use was associated with female gender,high grade,urban resident,single child,family income(> RMB 8000 per month),living expense(> RMB 3000 per month),mobile phone owning time(> 6 years)and mobile phone pay(> RMB 50 per month).Support was found for the theory of planned behavior variables(behavioral attitude,subjective norm and perceived behavioral control)and extended variables(past behavior and mobile phone involvement)predicting high level mobile phone use intention,and intention and past behavior predicted behavior via bivariate correlations and multiple regression analysis.Structure equaling model was conducted to exam the high level mobile phone use behavioral intention—theory of planned behavior model,high level mobile phone use behavior—theory of planned behavior model and extended high level mobile phone use behavior—theory of planned behavior model.The model indices was in a good fit.3.The results of mobile phone involvement with its impact factors study revealed that impulsive trait,self regulation,perceived social support and frequency mobile phone use predicted mobile phoneinvolvement.The results released by structural equation model that mobile phone use had significant mediating effect in the relationship between impulsivity trait and mobile phone involvement.Mobile phone use had significant mediating effect in the relationship between prevention focus and mobile phone involvement.What‘s more,mobile phone use played an important role in the relationship between perceived social support and mobile phone involvement.Conclusion 1.The high level mobile phone use behavioral intention questionnaire,including theory of planned behavior item scale and salient belief scale,has been shown to be a reliable measure of high level mobile phone use.Both theory of planned behavior scale and salient belief scale generates an overall measure with good test-retest reliability and validity.2.Based on theory of planned behavior,this study explores high level mobile phone use behavioral intention among university students.University students display high possible of mobile phone use behavioral intention.The results suggest that favorable attitudes,perceived others' approval,and perceptions of control are related to high level mobile phone use.Intention plays an important role in the relationship between theory of planned behavior variable and high level mobile phone use behavior.3.This study exam the impact factors of perceived social support,self regulation,impulsive trait and mobile phone use of mobile phone involvement.The results show that almost 85% participants can be defined as possible mobile phone involvement.High impulsive trait,perceived social support,frequency mobile phone use are significantly and positively related to mobile phone involvement.Meanwhile,selfregulation especially prevention focus had negative correlation with mobile phone involvement.The results also indicated that frequency mobile phone use played important mediating roles in the relationship between impact factors and mobile phone involvement.