Relationship Between Boredom And Internet Addiction Of College Students: The Mediating Effect Of Emotion Regulation Self-efficacy And Sense Seeking

Boredom is when an individual faces poor external stimuli and internal stimuli, is unable to experience demand fully meet, resulting in apathy depression and loneliness of the helpless and so unpleasant complex emotional state, with the characteristics of interest lack of inattention and lack of motivation. Internet addiction is due to continue to use the network as a result of a difficult to let go of the chronic mad state, and produce irresistible desire to once again use, will also have to increase the use of the tension and tolerance of a time, restraint and withdrawal phenomenon, thus to the physiological and psychological health produced certain influence. Sense seeking and emotion regulation self-efficacy are the important influencing factors of internet addiction.This study takes 614 college students as the research object, using University student Boredom Tendency Scale(BPS),Sense Seeking Scale, Emotion Regulation Self Efficacy Scale(RES-C), Chinese Internet Addiction Scale(CIAS-R) to explore the reltonships among boredom, sense seeking, emotion regulation self-efficacy,and internet addiction. The results are as follows:(1) Boredom tendency, sensation seeking, emotion regulation self-efficacy and Internet addiction disorder have good reliability and validity,Can be applied to the evaluation of the relevant variables of domestic college students.(2) Overall, the current college students are at a medium level of boredom,Boys were significantly higher than girls, The level of boredom freshman students was significantly higher than that of two, three, and four of the students, There is the same difference between the factors of the sense of loneliness and the sense of loneliness, the grade one is significantly higher than other grades. The male students were significantly higher than the female students in the sense of loneliness and self-control.(3) College students are significantly higher than girls in the sensation seeking.(4) Boys significantly better than girls in emotional regulation self-efficacy, the grade four was significantly better than the grade one. In the adjustment of the positive emotional efficacy of the factors on the performance of the grade four students better than freshman, two of the students. In the adjustment of depression, pain in the efficacy of the dimension, the boys were significantly greater than girls.(5) At present, college students’ Internet addiction is in the middle level,Internet Addiction of college students was significantly higher than that of girls,Freshman was significantly higher than other grades,Among them, the forced Internet and Internet abstinence were significantly higher than those in other grades.(6) Boredom have a significant positive predictive effect on Internet addiction,sensory seeking have a significant positive predictive effect on Internet addiction, emotional regulation self-efficacy have a significant negative predictive effect on Internet addiction.(7) Sensation seeking has moderating effect between boredom and internet addiction. Emotion regulation self-efficacy has an intermediary effect between boredom and internet addiction.(8) Boredom, Emotion regulation self-efficacy Sense seeking Internet addiction having intermediary model adjustment. Boredom that not only directly affects the level of the college students’ Internet addiction,but also indirectly impact on Internet addiction throughEmotion regulation self-efficacy as an intermediate variable.However sense seeking is not only regulates the direct effects on Boredom to Internet addiction but also effects of emotion regulation self-efficacy on Internet Addiction Disorder...