The exacerbating role of perceived social support and the “buffering” role of depression in the relation between sensation seeking and adolescent smartphone addiction
By Pengcheng Wang, Li Lei, Xingchao Wang, Jia Nie, Xiaoyuan Chu, Shuining Jin. Personality and Individual Differences, 2018
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Abstract The present study examined the relation between sensation seeking and adolescent smartphone addiction, and tested both the moderating roles of perceived social support and depression on the relation between sensation seeking and smartphone addiction among Chinese adolescents. Six hundred and fifty-five adolescents completed measures regarding sensation seeking, smartphone addiction, perceived social support, and depression. The findings indicated that sensation seeking was positively significant associated with adolescent smartphone addiction. Contrary to the social support buffering hypothesis, the results indicated that perceived social support exacerbated the relation between sensation seeking and adolescent smartphone addiction. To be specific, for adolescents with a low level of perceived social support, the relation between sensation seeking and smartphone was positively significant, and for adolescents with a high level of perceived social support, the relation between sensation seeking and smartphone addiction was even stronger. Moreover, depression moderated the relation between sensation seeking and adolescent smartphone addiction. Specifically, for adolescents with a low level of depression, the relation between sensation seeking and smartphone addiction was positively significant, while for adolescents with a high level of depression, the relation between sensation seeking and smartphone addiction was not significant.
Subfields: Literature and Literary Theory, Sociology and Political Science
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- Mark D. Griffiths
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- Zsolt Demetrovics
- Kağan Kırcaburun
- Jamal J. Al-Menayes
- Joël Billieux
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- Fear of Missing Out and Procrastination as Mediators Between Sensation Seeking and Adolescent Smartphone Addiction (2019, background): “Therefore, the assessment of related psychological factors and mechanisms of adolescent smartphone addiction has received increasing attention (Kwon et al. 2013a; Davey and Davey 2014; Kim et al. 2014; Lee et al. 2018; Jung and Kim 2015; Wang et al. 2017, Wang et al. 2018a, b).”
- Online Dating and Problematic Use: A Systematic Review (2020, background): “2015), and higher sensationseeking to smartphone addiction (Wang et al. 2018).”