A Research On The Relationship Among Self-esteem, Loneliness, Social Anxiety And Internet Relationship Dependence

The social network have become widely used tools in college students. These social tools bring convenience and meet psychological needs for college students, but it is also very likely to make them to indulge in the interpersonal relationship, which establish and develop in the network. This behavior make them to ignore the interpersonal communication in the real life, and to result in Internet Relationship Dependence, which have a negative impact on the individual psychological and social function. Self-esteem is the evaluation of individual value, and it have an important impact on the individual behaviors and activities. Low self-esteem individuals often experience social anxiety and loneliness, resulting in abnormal psychology and the behavior of the individual, such as Internet Relationship Dependence. The integrated orientation of self-esteem propose that self-esteem has two aspects of self-liking and self-competence. The former is the sense of social worth, and the latter is the sense of personal efficacy. The study explored the relationship between self-liking and self-competence of overall self-esteem, loneliness, social anxiety and Internet Relationship Dependence, and examined the mechanism of self-liking, self-competence on Internet Relationship Dependence.800 college students in Harbin were randomly chosen to fill in the questionnaires. The data was analyzed by SPSS20.0, Amos17.0 and Mplus7.0. The result was as follows:1. Only the self-liking was significant different in gender and grade. The overall self-esteem, self-liking and self-competence were significantly different in specialty.2. College students’ score of Internet Relationship Dependence, dependence, relationship involvement and exchange benefit were significantly different in gender and specialty; The dependence existed significant difference in grade; Different purpose for social network of college students existed significant difference in total scores and each dimension of Internet Relationship Dependence.3. Loneliness was relatively common in college students. College students had a medium degree of loneliness; Loneliness existed significant difference in gender and origin, but there was no significantly different in specialty and grade.4. The college students’ overall social anxiety, social avoidance and social distress existed significant difference in gender and origin; The overall social anxiety and social distress existed significant difference in specialty.5. Self-liking, loneliness and social anxiety significantly predicted Internet Relationship Dependence.6. Loneliness and social anxiety were two mediators between self-liking and Internet Relationship Dependence.7. The direct effect of self-competence to Internet Relationship Dependence was not significant, and loneliness made the suppression effect between self-competence and Internet Relationship Dependence.