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<p>Problematic smartphone use refers to behaviors that damage users’ physical and mental health due to improper use, which is prevalent among college students. Based on the Compensatory Internet Use Theory, this research proposes a moderated mediation model to explore how public safety sense affects problematic smartphone use and examine anxiety’s role as a mediator and resilience as a moderator. 86,026 Chinese college students (mean age = 20.11 years,41.2% male) completed the Smartphone Addiction Scale, the Public Safety Sense Questionnaire, the Generalized Anxiety Disorder Scale, and the Connor - Davidson Resilience Scale. The moderated mediation model was tested using PROCESS Macro Models 4 and 59. The results revealed that public safety sense negatively predicted anxiety, which in turn positively predicted problematic smartphone use, with anxiety playing a partial mediating role. In addition, Resilience significantly moderated the entire mediating path, with the mediating effect being stronger at low levels of resilience. This may be because students with low resilience are more prone to anxiety when facing changes in public safety sense, thereby more significantly affecting problematic smartphone use. Resilience also moderated the direct path, with the effect being more pronounced at high levels of resilience. The reason may be that highly resilient individuals’ goal-directed behavior under stress better meets situational demands. The results stress the vital importance of resilience during public crises. Policymakers and educators can implement targeted resilience-building programs to help Chinese students develop coping strategies.</p>

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The relationship between Chinese college students’ public safety sense and problematic smartphone use during the COVID- 19 pandemic: an analysis of moderated mediation effects

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    2025年4月21日

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  • Fuqiang Wang,
  • Pinhong Chen,
  • Zhengkui Liu,
  • Lubin Wang,
  • Dongmei Wang,
  • Shichang Yang,
  • Xiangyang Zhang

摘要

Problematic smartphone use refers to behaviors that damage users’ physical and mental health due to improper use, which is prevalent among college students. Based on the Compensatory Internet Use Theory, this research proposes a moderated mediation model to explore how public safety sense affects problematic smartphone use and examine anxiety’s role as a mediator and resilience as a moderator. 86,026 Chinese college students (mean age = 20.11 years,41.2% male) completed the Smartphone Addiction Scale, the Public Safety Sense Questionnaire, the Generalized Anxiety Disorder Scale, and the Connor - Davidson Resilience Scale. The moderated mediation model was tested using PROCESS Macro Models 4 and 59. The results revealed that public safety sense negatively predicted anxiety, which in turn positively predicted problematic smartphone use, with anxiety playing a partial mediating role. In addition, Resilience significantly moderated the entire mediating path, with the mediating effect being stronger at low levels of resilience. This may be because students with low resilience are more prone to anxiety when facing changes in public safety sense, thereby more significantly affecting problematic smartphone use. Resilience also moderated the direct path, with the effect being more pronounced at high levels of resilience. The reason may be that highly resilient individuals’ goal-directed behavior under stress better meets situational demands. The results stress the vital importance of resilience during public crises. Policymakers and educators can implement targeted resilience-building programs to help Chinese students develop coping strategies.