The Study on Relationship among Self-esteem,Social Anxiety and Mobile Phone Addiction

In order to investigate the statusand relationship of college studentself-esteem, social anxiety and mobile phone addiction this work was done. 302 college students were measured with the Mobile AddictionIndex Scale, Self-esteem Scale and Social Anxiety Scale. Results showed: (1) The proportion of College Studentsmobile phone addiction is 70.2%, which was normal distribution. The rate of mobile phone addiction was relatively high, and the situation was much common. (2) 31.46% of college students had low self-esteem, 44.37% had medium self-esteem, 24.17% had high self-esteem, 49% had high social anxiety and 5.6% have low anxiety. (3) Mobile phone addiction was significantly correlated with self-esteem and social anxiety. Mobile phone addiction was negatively correlated with self-esteem, with a correlation coefficient of - 0.55; mobile phone addiction was positively correlated with social anxiety, with a correlation coefficient of 0.557.Self-esteem and social anxiety can predict mobile phone addiction.