The Influential Factors Of Smartphone Addiction And Characteristics Of Cognitive Bias In College Students

Smartphone addiction(SA)refers to the overuse of smartphones that interfere with the daily lives of individuals,and have different clinical features,such as tolerance,withdrawal symptoms,salience,runaway,craving,etc..In this study,the smartphone addiction had been explored from two aspects:influencing factors and cognitive biases.The first study focused on the influence of psychological factors and influence mechanism of smartphone addiction.364 college students had been investigated by in Smartphone Addiction Scale for College Students(SAS-C),Chinese Big Five Personality Inventory-brief version(CBF-PI),Intolerance of Uncertainty Scale(IUS)and Brief Fear of Negative Evaluation Scale(BFNE).The general characteristics of smartphone addiction in college students and the demographic differences of gender,age and grade had been discussed,as well as the theoretical models of the smartphone addiction,especially the relationships among big five personality,intolerance of uncertainty(IU),fear of negative evaluation(FNE)and SA.The second study was based on the first study and 41 subjects who were selected by the survey of the first study were divided into addiction group and control group.The revised point detection paradigm of attentional bias had been conducted to explore the attentional bias of the participants with SA.The last study selected a total of 45 subjects and divided them into addiction group and control group.The revised version of text material paradigm had been used to explore the interpretation bias of SA individuals.According to this study,this paper obtains the following conclusions:(1)The college students generally have middle level SA.The second grade students and the only child students have higher level SA.(2)SA has significant correlation with big five personality,IU and FNE.(3)IU and FNE are the mediating factors of neuroticism and SA,and IU and FNE plays mediating roles in the sequence of neuroticism and SA.(4)Individuals with SA have attentional bias on smartphone related words.(5)Individuals with SA have negative interpretation bias to ambiguous situations.