Reciprocal relationship between boredom proneness and problematic social media use among Chinese adolescents: a random intercept cross-lagged panel model

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Su-Ting Chen and Fu-Ming Xu follow Chinese teens across four waves to untangle whether boredom proneness and problem social media use drive each other, in work from twenty twenty-six. Boredom proneness is a steady personal trait, while heavy use swings with circumstance. Between person and within person links needed separating.

Over two thousand students aged twelve to nineteen in Guangzhou answered from twenty twenty to twenty twenty-two. A panel model split stable traits from personal ups and downs. The stable parts of boredom and heavy use moved together. Inside a person, heavy use reliably preceded later boredom proneness at every step. Boredom predicted later use only once. The authors caution that pandemic era data needs a fresh replication.

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Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC13590709