Positive Emotions’ Role on Social Media Addiction among Chinese Young Adults

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10.2991/assehr.k.211220.382How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Positive emotions; social media addiction; overuse of social media

Abstract

With people spending more time on social media, addiction has become a social problem and has drawn much attention. Especially for young adults, social media has become an essential part of their life. This study examined the role of positive emotion played on social media addiction. The participants of this study included 250 young adults in China aged from 18-22 years old. The valid data was 203 participants, 102 female (50.2%) and 101male (49.8%). The data was collected using a questionnaire and were distributed by the Star online survey. The results of multiple regression analysis showed that the variances of influence on the overuse of social media from the most to the least were satisfaction, proud and sense of belonging, and the degree of influence on social media addiction is the sense of belonging, proud and satisfaction. Therefore, more attention could be paid to certain positive emotions when trying to prevent social media addiction in young Chinese adults.

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© 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Xinlei Wang
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/12/24
TI  - Positive Emotions’ Role on Social Media Addiction among Chinese Young Adults
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 4th International Conference on Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICHESS 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 2214
EP  - 2218
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211220.382
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.211220.382
ID  - Wang2021
ER  -