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Whether to Living in the Moment: The Mediating Role of Time Perspective
- 1 Department of Humanities Management and Information Engineering, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China
- 2 Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Beihang University, Xueyuan Road, Beijing, China
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Abstract
As technology advances, social media has become an integral part of people's lives. Meanwhile, individuals' lifestyles have changed dramatically today when COVID-19 is rampant. In the epidemic control, home isolation has become the norm in China. The current study explored the mediating role of time perspective (TP) between social media use and internalizing symptoms during the pandemic. In this study, we used Swedish Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory (S-ZTPI), Self-Rating Anxiety Scale (SAS), Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) and other correlation questionnaires. Participants (n=503) were asked to finish a series of tests. The findings suggest a link between problematic social media usage (PSMU), TP, and depression and anxiety. The link between PSMU and Internalizing symptoms is totally mediated by TP.
Keywords
time perspective, COVID-19, problematic social media use, depression, anxiety
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Liu,Y.;Zhang,M. (2023). Whether to Living in the Moment: The Mediating Role of Time Perspective. Lecture Notes in Education Psychology and Public Media,6,15-21.
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