Inhibition control characteristics in college students with different mobile phone addiction / 中国心理卫生杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective:To investigate the inhibition control characteristics in college students with mobile phone addiction,then to design tactics to enhance their inhibition control ability.Methods:Totally 150 college students were surveyed with the Mobile Phone Addiction Index (MPAI)to filter out the high and low mobile phone addiction.Thirty students with more than eight affirmative answers to the seventeen MPAI items were selected as the mobile phone addiction group while another 30 students with less than eight affirmative answers were selected as non addicts group of MPAI.All participants were asked to complete task of stop signal.Results:In college students with mobile phone addiction,the stop-signal reaction times were longer than that in the students without mobile phone addiction [(292.0 ±89.4)ms vs.(241.1 ±95.7)ms,P <0.05],while the non-signal reaction times were shorter than that in those without mobile phone addiction [(494.2 ±103.8)ms vs.(597.6 ±108.9 )ms,P<0.01].Conclusion:It suggests that the college students with mobile phone addiction may have poorer inhibitory control.