The Impact Of Childhood Psychological Abuse And Neglect Experience, Adult Attachment On College Students' Mobile Phone Addiction

In modern society, with the diversification of applications, smart phones increasingly play an important role in people's clothing, food, shelter and transportation. Although the mobile phone greatly facilitated people's daily life, indulging in the use of mobile phones and over-relying on mobile phones have indeed become an important social issue which people should be alert. Many studies have shown that, as the representatives of youth groups, university students who "embrace the new technology" easily, have already been affected adversely by the use of mobile phone on their learning and life.In order to find out the general status of university students'mobile phone use and explore its relationships with childhood psychological abuse and neglect, adult attachment,409 university students who come from 3 universities and 1 college in Nanjing and Xuzhou were investigated by questionnaires.In addition, this study also draws in the " trauma-attachment-addiction" theory which is widely used in psychological consulting to study "childhood psychological abuse and neglect-adult attachment-mobile phone addiction" which is subordinate to the theoretical framework above. Namely, focusing on the over-use of mobile phone, taking the core of attachment theory, backtracking individual childhood psychological abuse and neglect, the study explored the relationship among the three and the mediating role of adult attachment therein. The results revealed that:1. For the overall scores of mobile phone addiction index and part of its dimensions of university students, there were significant differences on gender, whether being from one-child family, hometown and grade.2. For the overall scores of childhood psychological abuse and neglect and part of its dimensions of university students, there were significant differences on gender, whether being from one-child family, hometown and grade.3. For the scores of attachment avoidance, there were significant differences on gender, grade and no significant differences on whether being from one-child family and hometown. For the scores of attachment anxiety, there were no significant differences on all the demographic variables studied.4. Study indicated a significant positive correlation between childhood psychological abuse and neglect, attachment anxiety, attachment avoidance and mobile phone addiction. In the fractal dimension, there was no significant correlation between negelect of supervision and productivity loss.5. (1) Childhood psychological abuse and neglect has positive predicted function on mobile phone addiction. (2) In simple regression analysis, both attachment anxiety and attachment avoidance have positive predicted function on mobile phone addiction. In multiple regression analysis, attachment anxiety has a positive role on mobile phone addiction and its 4 dimensions. (3). Childhood psychological abuse and neglect has positive predicted function on attachment anxiety and attachment avoidance.6. Both attachment anxiety and attachment avoidance partially mediated the relationship between childhood psychological abuse and neglect and mobile phone addiction. While when integrating childhood psychological abuse and neglect, attachment anxiety, attachment avoidance and mobile phone addiction to build the structural equation modeling, the mediating role of attachment avoidance was not significant.