Relationship among bullying,mobile phone addiction and depressive symptoms in college students
10.3969/j.issn.1000-6729.2024.09.013
- VernacularTitle:大学生遭受欺凌和手机依赖与抑郁症状的关系
- Author:
Ziwei MU
1
,
2
;
Fan RONG
;
Weiqiang YU
;
Wan XIAO
;
Yuhui WAN
Author Information
1. 安徽医科大学公共卫生学院儿少与妇幼保健学系/出生人口健康教育部重点实验室,合肥 230031
2. 南通市海门区疾病预防控制中心,江苏南通 226100
- Keywords:
bullying;
mobile phone addiction;
depressive symptoms;
gender
- From:
Chinese Mental Health Journal
2024;38(9):820-826
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Objective:To explore the relationship between bullying and depressive symptoms in college students,the mediating role of mobile phone addiction and the moderating role of gender.Methods:Totally 1 499 college students in Nantong City were selected to evaluate bullying experience,mobile phone addiction tendency and depressive symptoms with the Revised Adolescent Peer Relations Instrument-Bully and Target(RAPRI-T),Smart-phone Addiction Scale-Short Version(SAS-SV),Patient Health Questionnaire Depression 9-item(PHQ-9).SPSS macro program PROCESS 3.2 was used to examine the mediating role of mobile phone addiction and the modera-ting role of gender.Results:Different forms of bullying,traditional verbal bullying had the highest detection rate.There were positive correlations among bullying and the scores of SAS-SV and PHQ-9(r=0.17-0.42,Ps＜0.001).In the relationship between bullying scores and PHQ-9 scores,SAS-SV scores played a partial mediating role,and the mediating effect accounts for 26.70％of the total effect.The interaction terms between bullying and genders had statistical significance with PHQ-9 scores(β=0.09,P＜0.001),as the bullying scores increased,the PHQ-9 scores were higher in girls than in boys.Conclusion:Mobile phone addiction plays a partial mediating role in the association between bullying and depressive symptomsin college students,and the association between bull-ying and depressive symptoms is moderated by gender factors.
