The Relationship between Negative Life Events and Internet Addiction in Junior Middle School Students:The Roles of Social Anxiety and Boredom Proneness
This study investigated the relationship between negative life events and Internet addiction among 3880 junior middle school students and examined the chain mediating effect of social anxiety and boredom proneness.The results showed that:(1)Negative life events can significantly and positively predict Internet addiction among junior middle school students;(2)Social anxiety and boredom proneness partially mediated the relationship be-tween negative life events and Internet addiction,respectively;(3)Negative life events can also indirectly predict Internet addiction through the chain mediating effect of social anxiety and boredom proneness.Combined with the a-bove findings and based on the modified Interaction of Person-Affect-Cognition-Execution(I-PACE)model of Inter-net addicton and the group characteristics of junior middle school students,the present study revealed the internal mechanism of negative environmental factors on junior middle school students'Internet addiction and important practical implications for intervention work.
negative life eventsInternet addictionsocial anxietyboredom pronenessjunior middle school students
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