The Relationship And Intervention Between Personality Traits,Alexithymia And Mobile Phone Dependence Of Junior High School Students

With the rapid development of communication technology and wireless Internet technology,mobile phones have entered thousands of households and become an important part of people's daily life.Since mobile phone have profound impacts on individual lifestyles,learning processes and social interactions,the mental or behavioral problems associated with the using of mobile phone cannot be ignored.Mobile phone dependence has become the focus of study for scholars.453 junior high school students from the same middle school in Panyu District,Guangzhou were selected as participants in this paper.Mobile phone dependence,alexithymia and personality traits of these participants were tested by using Mobile Phone Addiction Index,Toronto Alexithymia Scale-20 and NEO Five-Factor Inventory.After exploring the relationship among these three variables in depth,this study picked and gave psychological intervention to some participants who were the mobile phone dependents.The results showed that the intervention had some effect.The main conclusions are as follows:(1)The degree of mobile phone dependence of junior high school students is not high,the proportion of mobile phone users is relatively low,and the scores of personality traits and alexithymia are in the normal range;(2)The neuroticism dimenion is significantly positively correlated with mobile phone dependence,while the other dimenions(extraversion,openness to experience,agreeableness and conscientiousness)are significantly negatively correlated with mobile phone dependence.Both neuroticism and extraversion have significantly positive predictive effects on mobile phone dependence,while the predictive effects of conscientiousness and agreeableness are negative.Additionally,the Alexithymia and mobile phone dependence are ignificantly positively correlated.The Alexithymia has significantly positive predictive effects on mobile phone dependence.(3)The difficulty identifying feeling factor plays a partial mediator role between some dimenions of personality traits(extraversion,agreeableness and conscientiousness)and mobile phone dependence.The export oriented thinking factor plays a partial mediator role between conscientiousness and mobile phone dependence.The mediates are all significant;(4)Based on the results of survey,group counseling which is mostly on account of alexithymia treatment is carried out among 10 mobile phone dependences.After the intervention,the level of alexithymia and mobile phone dependence in the experimental group are significantly reduced.The intervention effect achieves as expectation.