Association among sensation seeking, perceived social support and mobile phone addiction of university students

Objective To explore the relationships among sensation seeking,perceived social support,and mobile phone addiction,and to provide reference for effectively controlling mobile phone addiction among college students.Methods A total or 974 college students were surveyed with Sensation Seeking Scale,the Perceived Social Support Scale,and the Mobile Phone Addiction Tendency Scale.Results Totally 188 college students (19.30%) were detected with mobile phone addiction.The differences of mobile phone addiction between different grades were of statistical significance(F =8.661,P< 0.01).The junior students were more inclined to suffer from mobile phone addiction than freshmen and sophomores,while the senior students were more inclined to have it than freshmen.Correlation analysis showed that sensation seeking was positively correlated with mobile phone addiction(r=0.443,P<0.05),sensation seeking,perceived social support and mobile phone addiction were negatively correlated with each other (r=-0.213,-0.248,P<0.05).The perceived social support has moderating effect between sensation seeking and mobile phone addiction(ΔR2=0.117,β3=-0.105,t =7.840).Conclusion The perceived social support has played a moderating role in the relationship between sensation seeking and mobile phone addiction anmong college students.The more the perceived social support they get,the less possible the college students were tempted to be addicted into mobile phone.