Serial Mediating Role of Mindfulness and Difficulty in Emotion Regulation between Social Media Addiction and Subjective Well-Being
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mindfulness, social media addiction, mental well-being, difficult in emotion regulationAbstract
This study aimed to determine whether mindfulness and emotion regulation difficulties have a mediating role in the relationship between adolescents' subjective well-being and social media addiction levels. Relational screening model was used in the research. Students from two public high schools participated in the research. A total of 318 high school students, 88 boys and 230 girls, aged 13-18, took part in the study. Subjective Well-Being Scale for Adolescents, Mindfulness Scale-Adolescent Form, Emotion Regulation Difficulty Scale-8, Social Media Addiction Scale for Adolescents were used as data collection tools. Structural equation modeling, two-stage SEM and bootstrapping were performed to determine the mediating role of mindfulness and emotion regulation difficulties in the relationship between subjective well-being and social media addiction levels. In the findings obtained from the research, it was found that the indirect effect of mindfulness and emotional regulation between subjective well-being and social media addiction was significant. In other words, the research reveals that mindfulness and difficulty in emotion regulation have a full mediating role between social media addiction and subjective well-being. As a result, the increase in adolescents' social media addiction reduces their mindfulness, which in turn reduces their subjective well-being levels. On the other hand, the increase in adolescents' social social media addiction increases their difficulty in regulating their emotions, which reduces their subjective well-being levels.
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