Affiliation:
1. Hangzhou Normal University
Abstract
Abstract
Adolescents' fear of pandemic and concern about their health have led them to collected the information about the pandemic constantly, and increased their dependence on mobile phones, which have caused adverse effects on adolescents’ physical and mental health. But optimism may mitigate the effect of pandemic exposure on fear and reduce phone-dependent behavior. This study aimed to discuss the mediating role of fear and the moderating role of optimism in the relation between pandemic exposure and mobile phone dependence. Self-report questionnaires were used to investigate the physical and mental status among 938 adolescents. Pearson correlation analysis, hierarchical regression analysis and simple slope test were used for data analysis. Pandemic exposure was positively related to mobile phone dependence or in an indirect way through fear, in which optimism moderated the mechanism of pandemic exposure on fear, but optimism could not significantly moderate the impact of pandemic exposure on mobile phone dependence.
Publisher
Research Square Platform LLC
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