Resilience fully mediated in the link between risk of smartphone addiction and life satisfaction among college students

ABSTRACT

Objective:

Life satisfaction is one of the most important indicators of psychological health for college students. Therefore, investigating the factors that influence the level of life satisfaction of college students can help develop intervention programs to improve student life satisfaction. This study investigates the mediating effect of resilience in the link between risk of smartphone addiction (RSA) and life satisfaction among college students.

Method:

A cross-sectional study design was used. Four hundred twenty-three Vietnamese university students (M_age = 18.78, SD  = 0.925) completed The Smartphone addiction scale – Short version (SAS –SV), The Connor – Davidson Resilience scale (CD-RISC-10) and The Life satisfaction scale (SWLS). The SPSS 20 and PROCESS 3.5 (Model 4) were used to test the hypotheses.

Results:

The results indicated that RSA did not predict life satisfaction among Vietnamese students (B = −0.052, SE = 0.035, p > 0.05, 95% CI = [−0.120, 0.017]). More importantly, resilience fully mediated the link between RSA and life satisfaction (B = −0.020, SE = 0.010, 95% CI = [−0.041, −0.004]).

Discussion:

The findings of this study not only contribute to expanding the mechanism of the association between RSA and life satisfaction, but also provide a theoretical basis for interventions to improve life satisfaction for students.

KEYWORDS:

• Resilience
• risk of smartphone addiction
• life satisfaction
• mediating effect
• college students

Acknowledgements

The author would like to thank the participants who accepted the questionnaires to complete this study.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Declaration of conflicting interests

The author declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship and/or publication of this article.

Informed consent

Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in this study.

Ethical approval

All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee.

Data availability statement

Research data are not shared.

Authors’ contributions

Thi Truc Quynh Ho: Conception and design of study, analysis and/or interpretation of data, drafting the manuscript and revising the manuscript, revising the manuscript critically for important intellectual content and contact the journal. Ba Phu Nguyen, Van Bac Nguyen, Thi Khanh Linh Tran: Acquisition of data.