Exploring Stress and Problematic Use of Short-Form Video Applications among Middle-Aged Chinese Adults: The Mediating Roles of Duration of Use and Flow Experience
Huang Q, Hu M, Chen H
International journal of environmental research and public health · 15 citations
How it was studied
- Design
- Cross-sectional study (classified by our AI screen)
- Studied in
- People
- Main outcome
- Health markers and function
Who paid for it
- Funding
- Independent funding
- Government
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities
- Government
- National Social Science Fund of China
- Government
- The National Social Science Foundation of China
- Government
- The Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities in China
- Grants
- National Social Science Fund of China (19CXW029)
Based on 4 listed funder(s) and full-text disclosure statement.
Publication
- Published
- 2021-12-23 · Int J Environ Res Public Health · vol. 19 · issue 1 · p. 132
- Publisher
- Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
- Cited
- 69 citations · more than 98% of similar papers · 11.7× the field average
- Impact
- Top 10% most cited in its field
- References
- 85 works
- Access
- Open access (journal) · CC-BY
- Research areas
- Impact of Technology on Adolescents · Technology Adoption and User Behaviour · Digital Marketing and Social Media
- Keywords
- stress, middle-aged adults, duration of use, flow experience, TikTok, smartphone use, Chinese adults
- MeSH
- humans, adolescent, middle aged, china, young adult, smartphone, surveys and questionnaires, asian people
3 authors
From CN
- Qing HuangZhejiang University
- Mingxin HuZhejiang University
- Hongliang Chen · correspondingZhejiang University
Abstract
The pervasiveness of smartphones and the popularity of short-form video applications (SVAs), such as TikTok, among middle-aged Chinese adults have raised concerns about problematic SVAs use. Although a plethora of research has examined problematic smartphone use among teenagers and young adults, scarce attention has been paid to the middle-aged group. This study integrates the psychopathological approach and the compensatory use approach to explicate problematic SVAs use among middle-aged Chinese adults. We aim to examine the relationship between stress and problematic SVAs use via the mediating roles of duration of use and flow experience. A total of 194 middle-aged adults from across the nation participated in an online survey. The results showed that stress was positively associated with problematic SVAs use. We also found that duration of use positively mediated the relationship between stress and problematic SVAs use. Furthermore, a serial mediation effect of duration of use and flow experience was found. The findings suggest that the aforementioned two approaches are complementary to each other in explicating problematic SVAs use, but the compensatory use approach explains more than the psychopathological approach does. Flow experience extends the original compensatory use approach and demonstrates the importance of incorporating techno-psychological predictors in understanding problematic SVAs use.
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