Meaning in life as a mediator between interpersonal alienation and smartphone addiction in the context of Covid-19: A three-wave longitudinal study

Q Hu, Q Liu, Z Wang - Computers in human behavior, 2022 - Elsevier
In the context of the Covid-19, the present study designed a longitudinal study to examine
the relationship among interpersonal alienation, meaning in life and smartphone addiction …

Cellphone addiction during the Covid-19 outbreak: How online social anxiety and cyber danger belief mediate the influence of personality

Z Zhan, Q Wei, JC Hong - Computers in Human Behavior, 2021 - Elsevier
The highly contagious Covid-19 virus is spreading around the world, and quarantining at
home has become one of the main preventative behaviors, but it has also led to news …

Fear of COVID-19, loneliness, smartphone addiction, and mental wellbeing among the Turkish general population: a serial mediation model

AR Kayis, B Satici, ME Deniz, SA Satici… - Behaviour & …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT The novel coronavirus-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has become a major health
problem worldwide. The impact of COVID-19 has also been associated with psychological …

Social media addiction during COVID-19-mandated physical distancing: relatedness needs as motives

C Cheng, YC Lau - International journal of environmental research and …, 2022 - mdpi.com
In the early stages of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, national
lockdowns and stay-at-home orders were implemented by many countries to curb the rate of …

Divergent effects of social media use on meaning in life via loneliness and existential isolation during the coronavirus pandemic

PJ Helm, T Jimenez, MS Galgali… - Journal of social …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Stay-at-home orders issued to combat the growing number of infections during the
coronavirus pandemic in 2020 had many psychological consequences for people including …

Centennials, FOMO, and loneliness: An investigation of the impact of social networking and messaging/VoIP apps usage during the initial stage of the coronavirus …

E Fumagalli, MB Dolmatzian, LJ Shrum - Frontiers in psychology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The current COVID-19 pandemic has had obvious, well-documented devastating effects on
people's physical health. In this research, we investigate its potential effects on people's …

Hitting close to home: the effect of COVID-19 illness in the social environment on psychological burden in older adults

L Richter, T Heidinger - Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
This study examines the impact of COVID-19 experience of infection in the individual's social
environment on psychological burden controlling for a broad range of factors using data on …

Depression and anxiety symptoms are associated with problematic smartphone use under the COVID-19 epidemic: The mediation models

L Jin, Z Hao, J Huang, HR Akram, MF Saeed… - Children and Youth …, 2021 - Elsevier
COVID-19 epidemic has brought wide psychological impacts on the young adults. To
investigate the depression and anxiety symptoms and their associations with problematic …

Smartphone use during the COVID-19 pandemic: Social versus physical distancing

ME David, JA Roberts - … Journal of Environmental Research and Public …, 2021 - mdpi.com
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to wreak havoc across the globe. According to the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, limiting face-to-face interaction is the best …

From low sense of control to problematic smartphone use severity during Covid-19 outbreak: The mediating role of fear of missing out and the moderating role of …

J Brailovskaia, J Stirnberg, D Rozgonjuk, J Margraf… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Since the outbreak of Covid-19, the use of digital devices, especially smartphones,
remarkably increased. Smartphone use belongs to one's daily routine, but can negatively …