The Mediating Role of Spiritual Health in the Relationship between Emotional Intelligence and Mobile Phone Addiction
Journal of Pizhūhish dar dīn va Salāmat (i.e., Research on Religion & Health),
Vol. 8 No. 1 (2022),
19 Esfand 2022
,
Page 8-21
https://doi.org/10.22037/jrrh.v8i1.33109
Abstract
Background and Objective: Addictive use of mobile phones has profoundly altered human thinking habits and has also affected people's behavioral and psychosocial adjustment. The present study aimed to examine the mediating role of spiritual health in the relationship between emotional intelligence and mobile phone addiction.
Methods: The method used in the present study is descriptive and correlational. The statistical population of the present study consisted of all the high school students in Ardabil public schools in the academic year of 2019. Out of them, a sample of 250 students was randomly selected by multi-stage cluster sampling, who answered the questionnaires on cell phone addiction, emotional intelligence, and spiritual health. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, Pearson correlation coefficient and structural relationship modeling. In this study, all ethical considerations were observed and no conflict of interest was reported by the authors.
Results: The results of correlation coefficient showed that mobile phone addiction has a negative relationship with the total score of emotional intelligence and its components and with spiritual health. Spiritual health is also positively related to the overall score of emotional intelligence and the components of awareness and self-motivation. Model fit indices also confirmed the effect of emotional intelligence on mobile phone addiction mediated by spiritual health.
Conclusion: The findings reinforce the hypothesis that spiritual health can be a protective factor in adolescents and help them reduce the negative symptoms associated with Internet and smartphone use. The results of these findings can be used to prevent Internet-related psychological incompatibility and problematic use of smartphones in adolescents.
- Emotional intelligence; Mobile phone addiction; Spiritual health
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