A Study On Social Anxiety, Coping Style And Mobile Phone Dependence Tendency Of Young People

To explore the effects of social anxiety for mobile phone dependence in the intermediary role of coping style, this paper seleted mobile phone youth user as subjects, using questionnaires and interviews as study methods, according to internet addiction theory and literature, to prepare mobile phone dependence questionnaire for youth.Then I used this questionnaire to investigate and analyze the situation of mobile phone dependence for the youth; subsequently combined with Social Anxiety Scale and Simplified Coping Style Questionnaire, I further investigated the relationship among these three factors. The results are as follows:1. The mobile phone dependence questionnaire for youth had24items, including five main factors:conflict, association, withdrawal, forced, and tolerance. Cumulative contribution rate was57.768%. Scale Cronbach a was0.917. The questionnaire shows good content validity, because each dimension was moderate, and less than dimension of the correlation between their score and total score. On the other side, the date fit the questionnaire structure model. CIMN/DF=2.491<3, CFI=0.879、 GFI=0.865、NFI=0.815、AGFI=0.835, RMSEA=0.068<0.08. Questionnaire shows good reliability and validity.2. In general, mobile phone dependence score showed a normal distribution. According to statistical standards and experience, higher then the100score is mobile phone dependent, accounting for5.39%of the sample. In mobile phone dependent college students, men and women did not show significant differences in between. In educational background, there were no significant differences on total, however, in some factors of mobile phone dependence questionnaire, the subjects who had bachelor degree had higher scores than the ones who had graduate degree. Among different ages, it showed younger people had higher scores than people whose ages above32. The subjects which had a lower score use non-entertainment function of mobile phone more offen compared with who had a higher score. The phone bill had no significant connection with mobile phone dependence, but the network flow was.3. The results among the mobile phone dependence, social anxiety and coping style are significant correlated with each other. At the same time, social anxiety and coping style can predict the mobile phone dependence. The explaination of the variation when they affect mobile phone dependence had a higher score than which when social anxiety predict mobile phone dependence alone. As a result, social anxiety could affect mobile phone dependence in the intermediary role of coping style.