دانلود رایگان مقاله انگلیسی افسردگی و نگرانی اجتماعی در رابطه با استفاده مشکل ساز از گوشی هوشمند - امرالد 2017

Abstract

Purpose: Previous research has found support for depression and anxiety severity in association with both increased and problematic smartphone use. However, little research has explored transdiagnostic psychopathology constructs as mediators that may account for these relationships. Our primary aim was to test rumination as a possible transdiagnostic (cross-sectional) mediator in these relationships. Design: We recruited 296 college students to complete relevant web survey measures, including the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (for depression severity), Social Interaction Anxiety Scale (for social anxiety severity), Ruminative Thought Styles Questionnaire, Smartphone Addiction Scale-Short Version (to measure levels of problematic smartphone use), and a measure of smartphone use frequency. Findings: We found support for a structural model whereby the severity of depression and social anxiety accounted for variance in rumination, which in turn correlated with problematic smartphone use levels. Rumination accounted for relations between both depression and social anxiety severity with levels of problematic use. Originality/Value: We discuss the role of rumination as a possible mechanism between anxiety- and depression-related psychopathology levels with problematic smartphone use severity. This study is unique in exploring rumination in the context of problematic smartphone use.

Discussion

In the present paper, we examined the role of rumination in understanding relations between both depression and social anxiety with increased/problematic smartphone use. Several of our hypotheses were supported, demonstrating the impact of rumination in these relationships. At the bivariate and multivariate levels of analysis, rumination was related to problematic smartphone use (Hypothesis 2) but not to smartphone use frequency in multivariate analyses (failing to support Hypothesis 1). We found support for rumination in explaining relations between depression severity and problematic smartphone use levels (Hypothesis 4), and between social anxiety severity in relation to increased problematic smartphone use (Hypothesis 6). However, rumination did not explain relations between depression severity or social anxiety severity with smartphone use frequency (Hypotheses 3 and 5, respectively). Most previous research has examined relations between smartphone use frequency or increased problematic use with depression (recently in Demirci et al., 2015; Lu et al., 2011; Smetaniuk, 2014) and anxiety (recently, Demirci et al., 2015; Kim, R et al., 2015; Lee, Y-K et al., 2014), evidencing direct effects. We found that social anxiety and depression severity may not solely account for increased problematic use of a smartphone. Rumination may be an important mechanism linking anxious and depressive psychopathology with problematic smartphone use.