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Mobile Phone Dependence, Self-esteem and Subjective Well-being of Female College Students in China: The Basis of Guidance and Counseling Program

Shengcao Li, Elna Lopez

Abstract


This article explores the relationship between mobile phone dependence, self-esteem, and subjective well-being of female college students in the mobile internet era, and proposes guidance and counseling plans to help female college students. The mobile phone addiction tendency scale (MPATS), self-esteem scale (SES), and Campbell well-being scale were used to test female college students in Shandong Province. The results of data analysis show that mobile phone dependence is negatively correlated with self-esteem, self-esteem is positively correlated with subjective well-being, while mobile phone dependence is negatively correlated with subjective well-being. Self- esteem plays a partial mediating role between mobile phone dependence and subjective well-being, and subjective well-being plays a partial mediating role between self-esteem and mobile phone dependence.

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Mobile phone dependence; Self-esteem; Subjective well-being; Female college students

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18686/ahe.v7i12.8294

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