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Kayis, A.R., Satici, B., Deniz, M.E., Satici, S.A. and Griffiths, M.D. 
ORCID: 0000-0001-8880-6524,
2022.
Fear of COVID-19, loneliness, smartphone addiction, and mental wellbeing among the Turkish general population: a serial mediation model.
Behaviour and Information Technology, 41 (11), pp. 2484-2496.
ISSN 0144-929X
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Abstract
The novel coronavirus-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has become a major health problem worldwide. The impact of COVID-19 has also been associated with psychological and social problems. The main objective of the present study was to examine the associations between fear of COVID-19 and mental wellbeing, through a serial mediation analysis that included loneliness and smartphone addiction. Utilising convenience sampling from 73 of 81 cities in Turkey via the web-based survey the present study comprised 773 participants (556 females and 217 males; aged between 18 and 66 years) were collected. Self-report data were collected including psychometric measures assessing fear of COVID-19, loneliness, smartphone addiction, and mental wellbeing. Fear of COVID-19 was found to have both a direct and indirect effect on mental wellbeing. In addition, results supported a serial mediation model where fear of COVID-19 was found to influence mental wellbeing via loneliness and smartphone addiction in a sequential manner. The findings suggest that higher fear of COVID-19 is associated with lower mental wellbeing by negatively affecting individuals’ emotion and behaviour.
| Item Type: | Journal article | ||||||
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| Publication Title: | Behaviour and Information Technology | ||||||
| Creators: | Kayis, A.R., Satici, B., Deniz, M.E., Satici, S.A. and Griffiths, M.D. | ||||||
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis | ||||||
| Date: | 2022 | ||||||
| Volume: | 41 | ||||||
| Number: | 11 | ||||||
| ISSN: | 0144-929X | ||||||
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| Rights: | © 2021 the author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. | ||||||
| Divisions: | Schools > School of Social Sciences | ||||||
| Record created by: | Laura Ward | ||||||
| Date Added: | 28 May 2021 12:26 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 14 Oct 2022 15:12 | ||||||
| URI: | https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/42945 |
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