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. 2022 Feb 14;48(1):28.
doi: 10.1186/s13052-022-01217-6.

Core self-evaluation, mental health and mobile phone dependence in Chinese high school students: why should we care

Yun Li  1 , Zhibin Wang  1 , Weiquan You  1 , Xiuqin Liu  2
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Core self-evaluation, mental health and mobile phone dependence in Chinese high school students: why should we care

Yun Li et al. Ital J Pediatr. .

Abstract

Background: Mobile phone dependence is a common problem in the population of high school students. We aimed to evaluate the core self-evaluation, mental health and mobile phone dependence in Chinese high school students, to provide reliable evidence to the support of high school students.

Methods: We conducted a survey of high school students in Xiamen, China. The self-assessment questionnaire on mobile phone use dependence among teenagers (SQAPMPU), Mental Health Scale for Middle School Students (MSSMHS) and Core self-evaluation scale were used to evaluate the mobile phone dependence, mental health and core self-evaluation. t-tests, Pearson correlation and multiple linear stepwise regression analyses were conducted to analyze the potential relationships.

Results: A total of 1692 students were enrolled. The total score of mobile phone dependence of students in grades 10-12 was higher than that of students in grades 7-9. A total of 329 students in grades 7-9 and 371 students in grades 10-12 had abnormal mental status. The detection rate of psychological abnormalities among students in grades 10-12 was higher than that of students in grades 10-12. Core self-evaluation had significantly negative correlation with various factors of mental health (P < 0.01). The worse the mental health, the higher the degree of mobile phone dependence, core self-evaluation played a mediating role between mental health and mobile phone dependence (8.03%).

Conclusions: Core self-evaluation is an important factor affecting the mental health of high school students and mobile phone dependence. Educators should strengthen core self-evaluation of high school students to improve the mental health and reduce the mobile phone dependence.

Keywords: Care; Core self-evaluation; High school; Mental health; Mobile phone dependence; Student.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

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Fig. 1
The chart of the mediating role of core self-evaluation between mental health status and mobile phone dependence. Notes: mssmhs, mental health status; sqapmpu, mobile phone dependence; cses, core self-evaluation secore
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