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      Meaning in life as a mediator between interpersonal alienation and smartphone addiction in the context of Covid-19: A three-wave longitudinal study

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          In the context of the Covid-19, the present study designed a longitudinal study to examine the relationship among interpersonal alienation, meaning in life and smartphone addiction. Meanwhile, with the development of the epidemic whether there would be changes in the three variables also was examined. A sample of 579 university students (baseline mean age = 20.59, SD = 2.20) finished the anonymous questionnaires about interpersonal alienation, meaning in life and smartphone addiction. Three repeated measurements were obtained in June, September and December 2020. The finding indicated that university students' interpersonal alienation and meaning in life significantly increased, and the risk of smartphone addiction significantly decreased with the epidemic under control. Besides, meaning in life in the middle mitigating period of the epidemic mediated the relationship between interpersonal alienation in the early severe period of the epidemic and smartphone addiction in the basic end period of the epidemic. The study contributes to our understanding of how low levels of interpersonal alienation may improve meaning in life and reduce the risk of smartphone addiction. What's more, it provides scientific suggestions for the prevention and intervention of the adverse effects during public health emergencies.

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                Journal
                Comput Human Behav
                Comput Human Behav
                Computers in Human Behavior
                Published by Elsevier Ltd.
                0747-5632
                0747-5632
                16 October 2021
                16 October 2021
                : 107058
                Affiliations
                [a ]Key Laboratory of Adolescent Cyberpsychology and Behavior (CCNU), Ministry of Education, Wuhan, 430079, China
                [b ]School of Psychology, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, 430079, China
                [c ]Key Laboratory of Human Development and Mental Health of Hubei Province, Wuhan, 430079, China
                Author notes
                []Corresponding author. Key Laboratory of Adolescent Cyberpsychology and Behavior (CCNU), Ministry of Education, Wuhan, 430079, China.
                Article
                S0747-5632(21)00381-2 107058
                10.1016/j.chb.2021.107058
                8519895
                34690416
                f2e900b9-9e56-4e11-8220-13bd5308c0b2
                © 2021 Published by Elsevier Ltd.

                Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.

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                : 21 May 2021
                : 27 September 2021
                : 13 October 2021
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                covid-19 epidemic,interpersonal alienation,meaning in life,smartphone addiction,longitudinal tracking

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