Effect Of Psychological Abused And Neglect In Childhood And Alexithymia On Mobile Phone Addiction Tendency In College Students

The smartphones greatly facilitates the communication of our daily life.because of the smartphones, Every day we have interpersonal without meeting with eath other and browse the news and the intersting things at home.However, The excessive use of mobile phones is also harmful to our health.the mobile phone can bring convenient to us,meanwhile, it can cause many probiems,such as addiction, compulsive behavior, mood swings, attention deficit, social withdrawal. The researchers began to focus on the behavior of useing mobile phones overly in adolescents in2001.Currently, the studies about the hazards of mobile phone addiction tendency have made more fruitful results, but, the studies on the mechanisms of mobile phone addiction are less. We need further disscussion.In our study, we use the college students who have the widespread use of mobile phone use as subjects. Our purpose is to study of the impact of childhood psychological abuse and neglect experience on mobile phone addiction tendency and to analysis the intermediary role of alexithymia in this relationship. On this basis, we try to bulid the impact models of the mobile phone addiction tendency. Meanwhile, we try to verify alexithymia characteristics of college students who have mobile phone addiction tendency by the praxiology experiment, that to see the ability of the college students who have mobile phone addiction tendency in marking and matching expression in facial expression recognition is defect or not.Study1:Inder to study of the impact of childhood psychological abuse and neglect experience on mobile phone addiction tendency,we used751college sutdents as participants.All participants completed the Child Psychological Abuse and Neglect Scale and the Mobile Phone Addiction Tendency Scale(MPATS). We used the751questionnares to correlation analysis, regression analysis, and independent sample test. The results showed that:(1) The psychological abuse and neglect scores and mobile phone addiction tendency scores were significantly positively correlated;(2) The interference factor and scold factor in psychological abuse scale、emotional neglect factor in neglect scale can significantly predict the mobile phone addiction tendency scores and the scores of each dimension.(3) The score of child psychological abuse and neglect in the college students who have mobile phone addiction tendency is significantly higher than the scores of the college students in control group. The scores of mobile phone addiction tendency and its each dimension in psychological abuse and negelect groups are higher than the contol group.Study2:Inder to study of the impact of alexithymia on mobile phone addiction tendency,we used751college sutdents as participants.All participants completed the TAS-20Scale and the Mobile Phone Addiction Tendency Scale(MPATS). We used the751questionnares to correlation analysis, regression analysis, and independent sample test. The results showed that:(1) The TAS-20scores and mobile phone addiction tendency scores were significantly positively correlated;(2) The scores of the Difficulty Identifying Feeling factor and Export Oriented Thinking factor in alexithymia can significantly predict the mobile phone addiction tendency scores and the scores of each dimension.(3) The score of alexithymia and its each dimension in the college students who have mobile phone addiction tendency is significantly higher than the scores of the college students in control group. The scores of mobile phone addiction tendency and it s each dimension in alexithymia group are higher than the contol group.Study3:Both of the mobile phone addiction tendency group and the control group are34participants. They were selexted from the study1. All of them complete the identifing task and matching task in emotion recognition. We calculate the correct rates of each emotion in the identifing task and matching task. Then we analyze the differences between the rates of aeach emotion in the two groups. The results showed that:The rate of identifing seven emotin in the matching task is no significant difference in the two groups. But, in the identifiing task, there were significant differences between the two groups on the correct rate of identifiing sadness and anger emotion.Study4:Based on the results of study1and study2,We further analy the of moderating effect and mediating effect of alexithymia on the relationship between psychological abuse and neglect and mobile phone addiction tendency. Then we try to bulid the prediction model of the mobile phone addiction tendency on the basic of the moderating effect and mediating effect. The results showed that: The mediating effect of the alexithymia on the relationship between psychological abuse and neglect and mobile phone addiction tendency is significant. But the moderating effect of the alexithymia is not significant. Then we bulid the prediction model and fit the moedl, we find that alexithymia plays a partial mediator role in the relationship between psychological abuse and mobile phone addiction tendency and a complete mediator role in the relationship between neglect and mobile phone addiction tendency.Conclusion:Childhood psychological abuse can not only predict mobile phone addiction tendency directly, but also have an effect through the mediating role of alexithymia. While, Chilohood neglect experience affects the mobile phone addiction tendency through the complete role of alexithymia. The mobile phone addiction tendency directly subjects have alexithymia features in the praxiology experiment. Their ability of marking sad and anger emotion is defect. However, there is no significant difference between the ability of mobile phone addiction tendency group and control group.