Aggressiveness mediates the relationship between self-esteem and problematic smartphone use
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Lihua Zhang
College of Psychology, Liaoning Normal University
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Bo Yang
College of Psychology, Liaoning Normal University
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- Keywords:
- explicit self-esteem, implicit self-esteem, problematic smartphone use, aggressiveness
- Abstract
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This study investigated the association between self-esteem and problematic smartphone use, and examined the mediating role of aggressiveness. The sample comprised 167 college students. The results indicated that explicit, but not implicit, self-esteem was negatively correlated with problematic smartphone use. Further, aggressiveness mediated the link between explicit self-esteem and problematic smartphone use. These findings may help scholars to develop interventions to reduce problematic smartphone use among individuals with low explicit self-esteem.
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- 2024-05-01
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- Vol. 52 No. 5 (2024)
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