Accepted for/Published in: JMIR Mental Health
Date Submitted: Jul 19, 2018
Open Peer Review Period: Jul 23, 2018 - Sep 17, 2018
Date Accepted: Feb 10, 2019
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Visual Stimulus of Bedtime Media Use Mediate the Relationship between Negative Emotion Symptoms and Fatigue
ABSTRACT
Several examples of empirical research link negative emotion symptoms with fatigue. However, few studies have analyzed the influencing factors (i.e., stimulus of bedtime media use) that affect the relationship between negative emotion symptoms and fatigue. In this study, we have examined whether the stimulus of bedtime media use mediates the relationship between negative emotion symptoms and fatigue among college students. 394 participants, all of whom were Chinese college students, came from an occupational university in Sichuan Province, China. The data includes 92 males and 302 females (mean age = 19.98, SD = 1.43). The results demonstrate that both negative emotion symptoms and visual stimulus of bedtime media use play a part in influencing fatigue. This study shows that the visual stimulus of bedtime media use mediates the association between negative emotion symptoms and fatigue. The findings imply that negative emotion symptoms have an indirect effect on fatigue through the visual stimulus of bedtime media use, as opposed to the auditory stimulus of bedtime media use. Thus, future intervention programs can be developed to promote college students’ emotion regulation abilities, and change their habit of excessive bedtime media use.
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