The Impact of Mindfulness on Mobile Phone Addiction Tendency:Mediating Effect of Neuroticism and Boredom among College Students
To investigate the impact of mindfulness on mobile phone addiction tendency and the mediating effect of neuroticism and boredom between them among college students,a survey was conducted among 642 college students.The Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire(FFMQ),Sm-artphone Addiction Scale for College Students(SAS-C),Neuroticism subscale of the Chinese Big Five Personality Inventory(CBF-PI-B)short ver-sion,and the Boredom Proneness Scale-Short Form(BPS-SF)were used.The results showed that mindfulness could directly negatively affect mobile phone addiction tendency,and also influence it through the parallel and chain mediating effects of neuroticism and boredom.This suggests that enhan-cing college students'mindfulness level and reducing neuroticism and boredom have positive effects on preventing and treating mobile phone addiction tendency among them.