The Effect Of Meaning In Life On Mobile Phone Addiction Of Adolescents

In the global pandemic of coronavirus(COVID-19)in 2020,the world is experiencing new challenges.With the popularity of mobile Internet devices,more and more teenagers use smart phones.Smart phone is a multi-functional mobile device that integrates information acquisition and transmission,network entertainment and relaxation,convenient life and so on.The use of mobile phones can not only bring convenience to teenagers,but also lead to the risk of addiction and harm to their physical and mental health.However,due to their immature psychology,low control ability and low Internet social literacy,excessive use and dependence on mobile phones may lead to the risk of addiction,It is harmful to the physical and mental health of teenagers.With the development and influence of positive psychology,positive meaning of life has become the focus of research.The meaning of life plays an important role in preventing teenagers’ psychological and behavioral problems.According to the "Person-Affect-Cognition-Execution(I-PACE)model",it explains that as an individual,the interaction of many factors,such as clear cognition,emotional understanding and satisfaction,behavior adjustment and execution,may affect addictive behavior.In a word,I-PACE model conceptualizes the influence of addiction behavior as the result of multifaceted interaction.According to the theoretical model,the positive factors such as sense of life meaning,perceived social support and self-control ability will affect the possibility of developing mobile phone addiction.Based on the above purpose,this study constructs a chain mediating model to explore the relationship between sense of meaning of life and adolescents’ mobile phone addiction.The purpose of this study is to provide practical reference for school and family mental health education and Internet literacy education.Through the reasonable guidance of home school co education,young people can learn to learn healthy and useful knowledge from the network,and build a bridge for the healthy growth of young people.Therefore,this study consists of two parts,using convenient sampling method,in Shijiazhuang City,a high school and junior high school 1000 questionnaires.In Study 1,the basic situation of teenagers’ mobile phone use was investigated by using mobile phone addiction index scale and mobile phone use function classification.In Study 2,the sense of life scale,perceived social support scale,self-control scale and mobile phone addiction index scale were used to test the samples.SPSS 23.0 were used for data analysis to investigate the effects of meaning in life on adolescents’ mobile phone addiction and its mediating mechanism.The conclusions of the study are as follows:(1)The mobile phone addiction tendency of teenagers is obvious.Compared with junior high school students,senior high school students have higher mobile phone addiction;there is no significant difference in gender.However,there are significant gender differences in the use of mobile phones.Compared with girls,boys tend to use mobile phones to play games,while girls use mobile phones to socialize.At the same time,there are statistical differences between mobile phone addicts and non addicts in the use of mobile phone functions,such as social function and game function,that is,mobile phone addicts are higher than non mobile phone addicts in the use of mobile phone functions.(2)The sense of meaning in life negatively predicts adolescents’ mobile phone addiction,that is,the higher the sense of meaning of life,the lower the tendency of mobile phone addiction.(3)Perceived social support plays a mediating role in the relationship between sense of meaning of life and adolescents’ mobile phone addiction,that is,individuals with higher sense of meaning of life can understand better social support and reduce the level of mobile phone addiction.(4)Self control plays a mediating role between sense of meaning of life and adolescents’ mobile phone addiction,that is,individuals with higher sense of meaning of life have higher ability of self-control,and the possibility of mobile phone addiction will be reduced.(5)The sense of meaning in life affects adolescents mobile phone addiction through the chain mediating effect of perceived social support and the self-control.That is,the higher the sense of meaning in life,the higher the ability of social support and the higher the level of self-control,the lower the tendency of adolescents mobile phone addiction.