Relationship Between Mobile Phone Addiction and State 
Anxiety of College Students: The Mediating Effect of 
Psychological Craving for Mobile Phones

Kuo Zhang

doi:10.18686/neet.v2i5.4624

Relationship Between Mobile Phone Addiction and State Anxiety of College Students: The Mediating Effect of Psychological Craving for Mobile Phones

Kuo Zhang

Abstract

With the widespread use of mobile phones, college students addicted to mobile phones cause anxiety. In order to explore the relationship between mobile phone addiction and state anxiety among college students, whether there is a mediating role in mobile phone psychological desire. The questionnaire method was used to investigate the state anxiety, mobile phone addiction and mobile phone psychological
desire of 589 students from 3 universities in Hebei Province.The result shows that State of anxiety and mobile phone craving were positively
correlated with mobile phone addiction (r =0.25, P<0.01; r =0.74, P <0.01).State of anxiety was positively correlated with phone craving (r
=0.16, P <0.01), and the mediating effect was 0.28.We can see that State of anxiety can promote mobile phone addiction directly or indirectly
by increasing psychological craving for mobile phone.

Keywords

College students; State of anxiety; Psychological craving for mobile phones; Mobile phone addiction

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