| As the development of smart portable device and portable internet,smartphone is playing a more and more important role in modern life.On the one hand,usage of smartphone brought convenience to our life,on the other hand,negative consequences accompanied.Problematic smartphone use,is the behavior of uncontrollable and excessive use of smartphone which bring negative consequences as also.Previous studies focused more on measurement or predictive factors of problematic smartphone use,few studies have investigated protective factors of it.The present study conducted questionnaire survey in a convenient sample of 829 undergraduate students in 3 universities,to investigate the protective role of mindfulness on problematic smartphone use.We measured smartphone addiction tendency,mindfulness and depression level through Smartphone Addiction Inventory,Five Factor Mindfulness Questionnaire and Self-Rating Depression Scale,to get an understanding of prevalence and correlates of problematic smartphone use,and explore through which way mindfulness could affect problematic smartphone use preliminarily.Results are as followed:(1)Prevalence of problematic smartphone use was 46.92%,relative higher than previous studies.(2)Problematic smartphone use negatively correlated with mindfulness and positively correlated with depression,while mindfulness and depression were negatively correlated.The higher the level of mindfulness,the lower the smartphone addiction tendency,which implied mindfulness could be a protective factor of problematic smartphone use.(3)Depression mediated the relationship between four of five factors of mindfulness and problematic smartphone use.And The fitness index of the model was good enough for this set of data.To be specific,depression partially mediated the relationship between “describe”,“non-react” and problematic smartphone use,while playing a completely mediating role in the relation between “act with awareness”,“nonjudge” and problematic smartphone use. |
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