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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Psychol.
Sec. Addictive Behaviors
Volume 15 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1407031

Nature connectedness and Internet addiction among adolescents: a chain mediation model

Provisionally accepted
Yongzhan Li Yongzhan Li *
  • Xuchang University, Jiangguanchi, China

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    With the advent of the information age, adolescents' Internet addiction has increasingly become a social concern. Therefore, exploring the influencing factors and internal mechanism of Internet addiction has important practical implication for the intervention of adolescents' Internet addiction. In order to explore the influence of nature connectedness on individual Internet addiction and the role of subjective well-being and self-control, based on cluster sampling, a questionnaire survey was conducted among 1226 high school students. The results showed that nature connectedness negatively predicted Internet addiction; subjective well-being and self-control each independently played a mediating role in the relationship between nature connectedness and Internet addiction; and subjective well-being and self-control played a chain mediating role in the relationship between nature connectedness and Internet addiction. The research results further revealed the relationship between nature connectedness and Internet addiction and its internal mechanism, and provided an empirical reference for preventing and intervening high school students' Internet addiction in the Internet age.

    Keywords: Nature connectedness, Internet addiction, Subjective well-being, Self-Control, chain mediation

    Received: 26 Mar 2024; Accepted: 28 Oct 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Li. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Yongzhan Li, Xuchang University, Jiangguanchi, China

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