Cellphone addiction during the Covid-19 outbreak: How online social anxiety and cyber danger belief mediate the influence of personality

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Highlights：

• Neurotic people and Extroversive people develop cellphone addiction through different mediating factors and mechanisms.

• Neuroticism affects cellphone addiction through online social anxiety.

• Extraversion affects cellphone addiction through cyber danger belief.

• The good fit of the current model supports the feasibility of the RISP theory at the micro level of mobile phone addiction.

• COVID-19 increased individuals' reliance on smartphones while their personalities become more tendentious.

摘要

•Neurotic people and Extroversive people develop cellphone addiction through different mediating factors and mechanisms.•Neuroticism affects cellphone addiction through online social anxiety.•Extraversion affects cellphone addiction through cyber danger belief.•The good fit of the current model supports the feasibility of the RISP theory at the micro level of mobile phone addiction.•COVID-19 increased individuals' reliance on smartphones while their personalities become more tendentious.

论文关键词：Covid-19,Personality,Cellphone addiction,Online social anxiety,Cyber danger belief

论文评审过程：Received 3 October 2020, Revised 19 February 2021, Accepted 18 March 2021, Available online 22 March 2021, Version of Record 1 April 2021.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2021.106790