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The Influence of Technology’s Interference on Ado-

lescent Addiction to Smartphone: The Function of 

Core Self-Evaluations and Need Satisfaction Per-

ceived Online 

By Chen, X., Lin , Y., Liu, Q.X. 

Correspondence to: Liu, Q.X. Email: qinxueliu@mail.ccnu.edu.cn 

HAT is the impact of technology interference on smartphone addic-

tion among teenagers? Recently, a study published in Psychological 

Science selected 11-19 teenagers as the research object, through the science 

and technology interfere with the scale, the core self-evaluation scale, psy-

chological demand, network meet the scale, and smartphone addiction scale 

as a research tool, using the method of cluster sampling from two middle 

schools in Hubei province, a questionnaire survey was conducted among 

4,856 students, eliminating invalid questionnaires and obtained 4,372 valid 

questionnaires. Observe the influence on teen addiction to the smartphone 

through technology interference in parent-child interaction, and further re-

spectively explore the mediation mechanism from the cognitive level (core 

self-evaluation) and motivation level (psychological demand network meet). 

After verifying that there is no serious common method deviation in the 

study, SPSS 21.0 combined with SPSS macro program PROCESS was used 

for data management and analysis. The results are as follow: 

 There was a significant negative correlation between technological 

interference and core self-evaluation; there was a significant positive 

correlation between technological interference, psychological needs 

network satisfaction, and smartphone addiction. 

 Technology interference significantly positively predicted smart-

phone addiction. 

 Both core self-evaluation and network satisfaction of psychological 

needs play an intermediary role in the influence of technological in-

terference on smartphone addiction. 

Based on the data analysis results, the study proposes several sugges-

tions: 

 Parents can reduce the frequency of using electronic devices in par-

ent-child interactions to prevent smartphone addiction among teen-

agers and healthily use electronic devices in family life. 

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 When parents cannot avoid using electronic devices in parent-child 

interaction, it is suggested to participate in positive electronic device 

use activities with children. 

 By encouraging teenagers to have peer interaction offline and giving 

them opportunities to make decisions and express themselves freely, 

teenagers' needs for friendship and autonomy can be satisfied and 

their psychological needs can be satisfied in reality so as to reduce 

their psychological needs online. 

 Provide adolescents with high social support to improve their core 

self-evaluation, thus playing an intervention role in teenagers' 

smartphone addiction. 

 
Source: Psychological Science, 2020; 43(02):355-362.