Volitional control and cell phone addiction: development of a pathway mode

To investigate the relationship between individual volitional control and mobile phone addiction and the potentially mediating roles of non-adaptive cognitive-emotional regulation strategies and the need for uniqueness in the relationship.

Participants (N = 1,932) completed an online questionnaire including demographic questions, the Volitional Control Scale, the Mobile Phone Addiction Scale, the Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire, and the Uniqueness Requirement Scale.

Correlation analyses showed that there were significant negative correlations between mobile phone addiction, non-adaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies, the need for uniqueness and volitional control, and positive correlations between non-adaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies, the need for uniqueness, and mobile phone addiction. Non-adaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies and the need for uniqueness mediated the relationship between volitional control and mobile phone addiction.

Individuals' volitional control can both directly and negatively predict mobile phone addiction, and indirectly influence mobile phone addiction through the multiple mediating effects of non-adaptive cognitive-emotional regulation strategies and the need for uniqueness.

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