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- Title
Mobile social media use and self-identity among Chinese adolescents: The mediating effect of friendship quality and the moderating role of gender.
- Authors
Wang, Wei; Qian, Guoying; Wang, Xingchao; Lei, Li; Hu, Qian; Chen, Jing; Jiang, Suo
- Abstract
Mobile Internet and social media have greatly changed the way that adolescents communicate. The current study investigated the effect of mobile social media use on adolescents' self-identity, and explored the mediating role of friendship quality and the moderating role of gender. A total of 473 Chinese adolescents participated in the investigation. Results indicated that mobile social media used was positively correlated with adolescents' self-identity and friendship quality. Moreover, friendship quality mediated the relationship between mobile social media use and adolescents' self-identity. That is, adolescents' mobile social media use was associated with a higher quality of friendship, which, in turn, contributed to their formation of self-identity. In addition, gender moderated the relation between mobile social media use and friendship quality, such that this relation was stronger for males than for females.
- Subjects
CHINESE people; IDENTITY (Psychology); SOCIAL media; FRIENDSHIP; TEENAGERS
- Publication
Current Psychology, 2021, Vol 40, Issue 9, p4479
- ISSN
1046-1310
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s12144-019-00397-5