Psychology: Techniques and Application

Psychology: Techniques and Application ›› 2018, Vol. 6 ›› Issue (7): 431-437.doi: 10.16842/j.cnki.issn2095-5588.2018.07.005

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The Correlation between College Students Degree of WeChat Use and Their Loneliness:The Mediating Role of Self-Control

LI Bo; SHI Zifu; WANG Shiyu; ZHENG Kaiwen; ZHAO Xiang   

  1. (Department of Psychology,Hunan Normal University,Changsha,410081,China)
  • Online:2018-07-01 Published:2018-07-01

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Abstract: With a total of 461 undergraduate students as subjects, this study investigates the correlation of college students loneliness, self-control and their degree of WeChat use by adopting the Loneliness Scale, the Self-Control Scale for College Students and the Scale of Degree of WeChat Use. The results are as follows: (1) The percentage of excessive WeChat users was not large (14. 8%), and science students scored significantly higher than liberal arts students. (2) The degree of WeChat use had a significantly positive correlation with loneliness but a significantly negative one with self-control. And loneliness was negatively correlated with self-control. (3) Self-control played a mediating role between degree of WeChat use and loneliness, and the mediating effect accounted for 24% of the total effects. Our findings indicate that the degree of WeChat use partly influences college students loneliness through self-control.

Key words: college students, degree of WeChat use, loneliness, self-control；Bootstrap

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