Psychological flexibility as a mediator between type-D personality and pathological internet use in u-niversity students
10.3760/cma.j.issn.1674-6554.2017.12.013
- VernacularTitle:心理灵活性在大学生D型人格与病理性网络使用间的中介作用
- Author:
Fei HUANG
1
;
Linxin GUO
;
Xuemei ZHU
;
Zhuohong ZHU
Author Information
1. 430079武汉,华中师范大学心理学院,青少年网络心理与行为教育部重点实验室
- Keywords:
Pathological internet use;
Type D personality;
Acceptance and action question-naire-second edition;
Psychological flexibility
- From:
Chinese Journal of Behavioral Medicine and Brain Science
2017;26(12):1123-1126
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Objective To explore the mediating effect of psychological flexibility in the relationship between the two dimensions of type-D personality(negative affect and social inhibition)and pathological in-ternet use.Methods 592 university students were sampled from central China district and were adminis-tered with Adolescent Pathological Internet Use Scale(APIUS),Type-D personality scale(DS14)and Ac-ceptance and Action Questionnaire-Second Edition(AAQ-Ⅱ).Results Pathological internet use(2.56 ± 0.61)positively correlated with negative affect(1.58±0.78)and social inhibition(1.96±0.61)(r=0.37, 0.25)respectively,and negatively correlated with psychological flexibility(4.69±1.15)(r=-0.40).Path a-nalysis with latent variables showed psychological flexibility partially but significantly mediated the predictive effect of negative affect and social inhibition on pathological internet use.The mediation rates were 56% for negative affect and 62% for social inhibition.Conclusion Psychological flexibility has significant incremen-tal validity beyond two dimensions of type-D personality,and partially mediated the effect of negative affect and social inhibition on pathological internet use.These results suggest the intervention focus of PIU can be psychological flexibility.
