The Mediator Roles of Life Satisfaction and Self-Esteem between the Affective Components of Psychological Well-Being and the Cognitive Symptoms of Problematic Internet Use

The factors associated with cognitions about problematic Internet use have been empirically tested in various studies. The aim of the present study was to examine the mediator roles of both life satisfaction and self-esteem between affective components of subjective well-being and cognitions about p...

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Published in:Social indicators research 2011-08, Vol.103 (1), p.23-32
Main Authors: Senol-Durak, Emre, Durak, Mithat
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Analysis
Anxiety
Associations
Behavior
Cognition
Cognitive models
Cognitive psychology
Cognitive Style
College Students
Correlation
Cultures and civilizations
Depressive disorders
Emotions
Equality
Foreign Countries
History, theory and methodology
Human behavior
Human Geography
Internet
Lent
Life Satisfaction
Lifestyles. Everyday life
Loneliness
Methodology
Microeconomics
Modelling
Personality
Personality traits
Psychology
Psychopathology
Public Health
Quality of Life Research
Roles
Schemata (Cognition)
Self Esteem
Social research
Social Sciences
Sociology
Structural equation modeling
Structural Equation Models
Studies
Symptoms
Symptoms (Individual Disorders)
Turkey
University students
Well Being
Wellbeing
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Summary:The factors associated with cognitions about problematic Internet use have been empirically tested in various studies. The aim of the present study was to examine the mediator roles of both life satisfaction and self-esteem between affective components of subjective well-being and cognitions about problematic Internet use. For this purpose, the model that was conceptualized by Davis (Comput Human Behav 17:187-195, 2001), Caplan (Comput Human Behav 18:553-575 2002), and Lent et al. (J Vocat Behav 74: 190-198 2009) was modified and used as the theoretical framework for this study. The impacts of life satisfaction and self-esteem on the association between affective components of psychological well-being (positive and negative) and cognitions about problematic Internet use were tested by using structural equation modeling (SEM) in a sample of 480 Turkish university students. The results reveal that by playing a mediator role, self-esteem impacted positive/negative affect and life satisfaction and, hence, indirectly influenced cognitions about problematic Internet use. Examining the roles of self-esteem and subjective well-being will provide a new starting point for further studies.
ISSN:0303-8300
1573-0921
DOI:10.1007/s11205-010-9694-4