The Impact of Adolescent Resilience on Mobile Phone Addiction During COVID-19 Normalization and Flooding in China: A Chain Mediating

Anna Ma; Yan Yang; Shuangxi Guo; Xue Li; Shenhua Zhang; Hongjuan Chang

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2022.865306

The Impact of Adolescent Resilience on Mobile Phone Addiction During COVID-19 Normalization and Flooding in China: A Chain Mediating

Front Psychol. 2022 Jun 23:13:865306. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.865306. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Anna Ma^{1

2}, Yan Yang¹, Shuangxi Guo³, Xue Li¹, Shenhua Zhang⁴, Hongjuan Chang¹

Affiliations

¹ School of Nursing, Xinxiang Medical University, Xinxiang, China.
² School of Nursing, St. Paul University Manila, Manila, Philippines.
³ Department of Neurology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xinxiang Medical University, Xinxiang, China.
⁴ Weihui Senior Middle School, Xinxiang, China.

Abstract

Natural disasters cause long-term psychological problems and increase substance use in some adults. However, it is unclear whether disasters also lead to these problems in adolescents. We hypothesized the influence of adolescent resilience on mobile phone addiction during the normalization of COVID-19 and flooding. We tested the mediating role of coping style and depression, anxiety, and stress (DASS) on phone addiction among 1,751 adolescents in the Henan Province in China. The adolescents were surveyed via an online questionnaire, and we used structural equation modeling to examine the correlations and moderation effects. The results show that coping style and DASS could mediate the relationship between adolescent resilience and mobile phone addiction among Chinese adolescents. A chain of coping styles and DASS mediated the relationship between adolescent resilience and mobile phone addiction in Chinese adolescents.

Keywords: COVID-19; China; DASS-21; adolescent resilience; chain mediating; coping style; flood; mobile phone addiction.