Impact of Mobile Phone Addiction on College Students’ Learning Investment under COVID-19: The Intermediary Role of Time Management Tendency and the Regulation of Self-Control

Abstract

Under the background of the COVID-19 epidemic, the problem of mobile phone addiction in college students has become increasingly serious. This study takes the relationship between mobile phone addiction and college students’ learning input under the COVID-19 epidemic as the main line, investigates the intermediary role of time management tendencies on mobile phone addiction and their learning input, and investigates the regulatory role of self-control. It is hoped that this study can help college students realize the harm from mobile phone addiction, thus reducing the time they spend in using mobile phones and improving their learning investment. In this study, 972 valid questionnaires were selected from 6 colleges and universities in Henan Province, and the effects of the variables such as mobile phone addiction, time management tendency, and self-control on college students’ learning input were explored. The results show that: (1) There is a significant negative correlation between learning investment tendency and mobile phone addiction. (2) Time management tendencies play an intermediary role between mobile phone addiction and college students’ learning input, that is, mobile phone addiction mainly affects college students’ learning investment through time management tendencies. (3) Self-control plays a regulatory role in the mediating effect of time management tendencies.