Avoidant attachment and smartphone addiction in college students: The mediating effects of anxiety and self-esteem
- Authors
- Kim, Eunhyang; Koh, Eunyoung
- Issue Date
- Jul-2018
- Publisher
- PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
- Keywords
- Smartphone addiction; Avoidant attachment; Anxiety; Self-esteem; College student; Structural equation modeling
- Citation
- COMPUTERS IN HUMAN BEHAVIOR, v.84, pp.264 - 271
- Journal Title
- COMPUTERS IN HUMAN BEHAVIOR
- Volume
- 84
- Start Page
- 264
- End Page
- 271
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/gachon/handle/2020.sw.gachon/3579
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.chb.2018.02.037
- ISSN
- 0747-5632
- Abstract
- This study examined the structural relationship between avoidant attachment, self-esteem, anxiety, and smartphone addiction in college students. We hypothesized that avoidant attachment would predict smartphone addiction, and that this relationship would be mediated by self-esteem and anxiety. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was used to test the indirect relationship between avoidant attachment and smartphone addiction through anxiety and self-esteem. Participants were 313 college students at a large-sized private university in Korea. Participants responded to an attachment, anxiety, and smartphone addiction questionnaire. The paths between avoidant attachment and self-esteem, self-esteem and anxiety, self-esteem and smartphone addiction, and anxiety and smartphone addiction were statistically significant. However, in contrast to our expectations, neither avoidant attachment nor avoidant attachment-smartphone addiction pathways were significant. The association between avoidant attachment and smartphone addiction was fully mediated by anxiety and self-esteem. We suggest that avoidant attachment may lead to low self-esteem and anxiety, which in turn may lead to smart phone addiction. (C) 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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