Citation

Wang P, Nie J, Wang X, Wang Y, Zhao F, Xie X, Lei L, Ouyang M. J. Health Psychol. 2018; ePub(ePub): 1359105318801069.

Affiliation

Renmin University of China, China.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1359105318801069

PMID

30230383

Abstract

This study examined whether smartphone addiction predicted adolescent materialism and whether self-esteem mediated the relation between smartphone addiction and adolescent materialism. Moreover, this study tested whether this mediating process was moderated by student-student relationship. Our theoretical model was tested among 748 middle school students in China (mean age = 16.80, standard deviation = .73). The results indicated that smartphone addiction was positively related to adolescent materialism. Mediation analysis showed that self-esteem mediated this relation. Moderated mediation test further revealed that the mediated path was moderated by student-student relationship.

Language: en

Keywords

adolescents; materialism; self-esteem; smartphone addiction; student–student relationship