The influence of stress perception on mobile phone addiction tendency in nursing undergraduates: the mediating role of self-control and the moderating role of psychological capital

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Abstract Background Nursing students' pressure caused by academic burden and other reasons will induce students' mobile phone addiction. mobile phone addiction tendency impairs students' daily psychosocial functioning and can lead to depression, anxiety, loneliness, inattention and other adverse mental and physical health problems. Individuals with different levels of self-control and psychological capital respond differently to stress, so it is important to understand the factors that influence mobile phone addiction tendency in nursing students in the context of stress. This study explores the relationship between stress perception, self-control, psychological capital, and cell phone addiction in nursing undergraduates, and therefore to provide new ideas for designing strategies to improve mobile phone addiction tendency in nursing undergraduates. Methods From September 2022 to November 2022, a stratified random sampling method was used to select 616 nursing undergraduates from a university in Shaanxi Province as the investigation objects. Subjective stress, self-control ability, mobile phone addiction tendency and psychological capital level of nursing undergraduates were evaluated by pressure perception scale, self-control scale, mobile phone addiction tendency and positive psychological capital questionnaire. The mediating effect was tested by percentile Bootstrap method with deviation correction, and the moderating effect was tested by PROCESS program. Results (1) 592 valid questionnaires were collected in this study, and 176 (29.72%) of the 592 nursing undergraduates had mobile phone addiction; (2) Self-control played a mediating role between stress perception and mobile phone addiction tendency, with an effect value of 0.362, accounting for 58.86% of the total effect; (3) With the increase of psychological capital level, the influence of self-control on mobile phone addiction tendency was increased (β= -0.007, t = -3.402, P < 0.001). Conclusions Self-control played a partial mediating role in the positive relationship between stress perception and mobile phone addiction tendency among nursing undergraduates. Psychological capital can regulate the relationship between self-control and Mobile phone addiction tendency.