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Inter-personal Problems In Mobile-addicted College Students

Posted on:2013-08-11Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:W WangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2235330374993028Subject:Development and educational psychology
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In modern society, with the wide usage of mobile phones and the development of mobile phone technology, the mobile phones have become essential items in people’s lives. People enjoy the convenience and fun brought by the mobile phone technological progress, the mobile phone usage is also cause some problems, such as excessive usage of mobile phones made people indulge in the usage of mobile phones, so they maybe become psychological dependence, and influence their learning, work and life. The addiction usage of mobile phone is also influence the interpersonal relationships, the excessive or addiction usage of mobile phone is not conducive to the development of interpersonal relationships, mobile phone addiction may have some problems or obstacles in the interpersonal relationships.The study one make a survey of mobile phone usage from the college students mobile phone users, the Mobile Phone Problem Use Scale (MPPUS) and some basic findings screened mobile phone addiction college students, while we use the Inventory of Interpersonal Problems-32(IIP-32) to measure the interpersonal problems of mobile phone addiction students and non-addiction students. Subsequently, we research the interpersonal problems of mobile phone college students by the way of questionnaires and experiment, mainly in terms of emotional expression and recognition to observe and study their interpersonal relationships, specifically:The study two use the twenty-item Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20) to investigate the mobile phone addiction students have alexithymia whether or not, and then to explore the correlation between of alexithymia and interpersonal problems; The study three use a mixed experiment with2(trial types:mobile phone addiction group/non-mobile phone addiction group)×5(facial expression pictures:happy/sad/anger/fear/disgust)×2(facial expression intensity:30%strength/70%strength) to research the judgment and identify ability of type and intensity of facial emotions of mobile phone addiction students, and then to explore the correlation between of the ability to identify their facial expression recognition and interpersonal problems.The results indicated that:the MPPUS scores of mobile phone addiction group and non-mobile phone addiction group have significant differences, the mobile phone addiction group scored significantly higher than non-mobile phone addiction group; and in the interpersonal relationships, the mobile phone addiction group and the non-mobile phone addiction group have differences between of IIP-32score and factors scores, the IIP-32total score and eight factors scores of mobile phone addiction group were significantly higher than non-mobile phone addiction group. In emotional recognition and expression, the significant differences in TAS-20total score and three factor scores between the mobile phone addiction group and non-mobile phone addiction group, then we also research the differences of male and female mobile phone addiction students on the three factors of alexithymia, the results showed that there were no significant differences in this research, and the result also indicate that there is a certain positive correlation between the TAS-20scores and the IIP-32scores. In facial emotion recognition, the correct rates in the five kinds of facial emotion recognition of the mobile phone Addiction group were lower than non-mobile phone addiction group, and there is a significant differences in the identification of sad, fear, anger and disgust scores, the result also indicate that there is a significant negative correlation between the correct rates and the IIP-32scores.
Keywords/Search Tags:Mobile phone addiction, Couege students, Inter-personalproblems, Alexithymia, Facial expression recognition
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