Association between problematic smartphone use and mental health and the mediating effects of academic pressure among junior and senior high school students in Shanghai, China
PENG Ai-ping1, LAN Yu-kun2, JIA Ying-nan2
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1. Department of Research and Education, the International Peace Maternity and Child Health Hospital of China Welfare Institute, Shanghai 200030, China;
2. Department of Preventive Medicine and Health Education, School of Public Health, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China
Objective To examine the cross-sectional association between the problematic smartphone use(PSU) and mental health and the mediating role of academic pressure in the association between them among junior and senior high school students in Shanghai, China.Methods A two-stage sampling method was employed in Dec 2018.Students from 13 (5 junior and 8 senior) high schools participated in a survey assessing demographic characteristics, academic stress, PSU and mental health.A total of 2 867 valid questionnairs were collected, and the effective response rate was 92.5%.Problematic Smartphone Use Classification Scale (PSUCS) for primary and high school students was used to evaluate the PSU. Academic Pressure Subscale (APS) for Chinese high school was used to evaluate the academic pressure.World Health Organization Five-Item Well-Being Index (WHO-5) was used to evaluate the mental health.Bivariate correlation and regression analysis were used to analyze the relationship among PSU, academic pressure and mental health. Mediating effect models were conducted to explore the mediating role of academic stress in the relationship between PSU and mental health.Results The PSU was significantly positively associated with academic pressure among junior (r=0.27, P < 0.01) and senior (r=0.22, P < 0.01) high school students.The academic pressure was significantly negatively associated with mental health among junior (r=-0.52, P < 0.01) and senior (r=-0.49, P < 0.01) high school students.Among junior high school students, the PSU on social networking (r=-0.08, P < 0.05) and PSU on entertainment (r=-0.13, P < 0.01) were significantly negatively associated with mental health respectively.Among senior high school students, the PSU on information collection was significantly positively associated with mental health (r=0.08, P < 0.01).Among both junior and senior high school students, the association between PSU on social networking and mental health was suppressed by academic pressure, while academic pressure mediated the negative association between PSU on entertainment and mental health.Conclusion The PSU is associated with mental health among junior and senior high school students, and academic pressure mediates the association between them.But there are different associations between different PSU types and mental health.
PENG Ai-ping, LAN Yu-kun, JIA Ying-nan.
Association between problematic smartphone use and mental health and the mediating effects of academic pressure among junior and senior high school students in Shanghai, China[J]. Fudan University Journal of Medical Sciences, 2022, 49(01): 16-22 https://doi.org/10.3969/j.issn.1672-8467.2022.01.003
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