College Students' Loneliness And Problematic Social Networking Use:Chain Mediation Of Social Self-efficacy And Social Anxiety

The use of problematic social networking sites is a morbid,problematic use of social networking sites that,like Internet addiction,can trigger a variety of psychological and behavioral problems to a certain extent.Based on the cognitive-behavioral model of problematic Internet use,this study uses the problematic Internet to use both the near-end and far-end determinants to study the factors that influence the use of problematic social networking sites—loneliness,social anxiety,Social self-efficacy.In this study,544 college students from Shanghai were selected as subjects,and the questionnaire was conducted using the Emotional-Social Loneliness Scale(ESLI),Social Anxiety Scale,Social Self-Efficacy Questionnaire and the revised problematic social website using the questionnaire.Statistical analysis was performed on the obtained data using SPSS22.0 ?AMOS24.0 and Mplus7.4.The results are as follows:(1)The problematic use of college students' problematic social networking sites is lower than the average threshold,and there are significant differences in different grades,showing the trend that sophomores are larger than first-year students and larger than juniors.(2)The overall level of loneliness of college students is at a medium level,that is,general loneliness.There is no significant difference in the performance of loneliness between men and women.The performance of non-only children in loneliness is significantly different.And the loneliness of science and engineering students is significant.(3)Loneliness and social anxiety can significantly predict the use of problematic social networking sites.Social self-efficacy can significantly negatively predict the use of problematic social networking sites.(4)College students' social anxiety plays a mediating role between loneliness and problematic social networking sites;social self-efficacy mediates between loneliness and problematic social networking sites;social anxiety is perceived by social self-efficacy in loneliness Chained mediation between problematic social networking sites.