An Empirical Study On College Students' Mobile Phone Dependence

In a sense,the advent of mobile phones is a great invention comparable to any invention.Especially,in recent years,the vigorous development of mobile phone technology and the maturity of mobile internet technology have broken through limitation of the time and space and brought great conveniences to people's communication.It is no longer limited to simple SMS phone service,but has become a mobile intelligent terminal integrating life,learning,entertainment,work and social contact,which greatly meets people's various needs.This makes mobile phones have a high status in people's hearts.Nowadays,playing mobile phone has become a mainstream lifestyle and a new social form.Due to its powerful functions,mobile,portable,interactive,open and timely personality,mobile phones have well met the physiological and emotional needs of college students.It has indisputably become a guest of honor for college students and an indispensable part of their lives.As an important group of mobile phone users,college students are enjoying the benefits of the mobile internet era,but also inevitably have the problems of mobile phone use,that is,mobile phone dependence.This study refers to the definitions of most scholars and believes that mobile phone dependence is a spontaneous action of playing with mobile phone anytime and anywhere developed in the process of using mobile phone for a long time.It is a special behavioral addiction mode and will cause adverse reactions to users' psychology and behavior.Mobile phone dependence is harmful to college students' physical and mental health and behavioral perception.It will take up college students' study time,weaken their motivation to study,cause lazy and indifferent attitude to study,affect various functions of the body,appear multiple parts of pain,affect interpersonal skills,cause interpersonal anxiety,and college students who rely on mobile phones will have depression,anxiety,autism and other psychological disorders.The problem of college students' dependence on mobile phones has become inevitable and irresistible,and the negative effects caused by it cannot be underestimated.It is not conducive to the healthy development of college students' body and mind,normal learning and social interaction,and even weakens their ability to adapt to society in the future.Therefore,it is particularly necessary to pay more attention to the problem of college students' mobile phone dependence and intensify research.Only by clarifying the current situation of college students' dependence on mobile phones,the reasons and the negative impact on College students,can we give appropriate coping methods,so as to better guide college students to use mobile phones rationally and scientifically,make use of the advantages of mobile phones,not be kidnapped by mobile phones,and learn easily and grow happily.This study is carried out in the form of a questionnaire.Based on the 440 first-hand data from college students in Jiangxi Province,Various statistical analysis methods are used to analyze the data.T-test and F-variance analysis are used to analyze the differences in demographic variables of mobile phone dependence;correlation and regression analysis are used to analyze the correlation between mobile phone dependence and social support of college students and their motivation to use mobile phones,and equation model are given.Structural equation model is used to test the mediating effect of social support on mobile phone dependence.Finally,this paper also introduces propensity score matching to analyze how college students' mobile phone dependence affects interpersonal relationships,and then puts forward practical and feasible suggestions to cope with the increasing trend of college students' mobile phone dependence according to the research results and social cognition theory.The specific research results are as follows.(1)Compared with the mobile phone dependence level of college students on campus,our province is in a neutral and downward position;(2)The influence of gender difference,student origin difference,grade difference,mobile phone price and daily use time difference on college students' mobile phone dependence will also be different.The difference between the only child and the place of birth affects the social support,but the difference of gender has little influence on the social support.The gender difference,the difference between the only child and the place of origin will affect the motivation of college students to use mobile phones on the whole.However,there is no difference in some dimensions.The score of interpersonal communication is significantly higher than that of other dimensions,indicating that social interaction by mobile phone is the most commonly used function of college students;(3)Changes in the degree of mobile phone dependence will have a profound impact on the social support and motivation of college students to use mobile phones;(4)The influence of social support on mobile phone dependence is negative,while the influence of motivation on mobile phone dependence is positive;(5)It can be verified by structural equation model that social support plays a role of partial mediating effect in the path analysis of motivation dependence on mobile phones;(6)Using the propensity score matching to measure the negative influence of mobile phone dependence on interpersonal relationship,it indicates that the dependence on mobile phone will endanger college students' future social interaction and get along with others after entering the workplace,and is harmful to the construction of a good interpersonal network.