Predicting Mobile phone addictive behavior in students based on emotional self-regulation, self-compassion, and attachment styles to God

The present study aimed to investigate the role of emotional self-regulation, self-compassion, and attachment styles to God in predicting cell phone addiction among students.

The present study is descriptive-correlational. The statistical population of this study was all students in Guilan province in 2020, from which 231 students were selected by multi-stage cluster sampling. The questionnaires Savari Mobile phone addictive, Mars emotional self-regulation, self-compassion, and attachment styles to god were used to collect data. The collected data were analyzed on SPSS-26 using descriptive statistics (mean and standard deviation) and inferential statistics including Pearson correlation coefficient and multiple regression.

The results of this study showed that emotional self-regulation (r = -0.203), self-compassion (r = -0.382) and secure attachment to God (r = -0.150) have a negative and significant relationship with mobile phone addiction. The results of multiple regression analysis also showed that 27% of the variance of mobile phone addiction is explained based on emotional self-regulation, self-compassion, and secure attachment to God (p <0.001).

According to the present study, it is possible to prevent the occurrence of mobile phone addiction among adolescents and strengthen the psychological and physical injuries caused by it by strengthening and teaching the skills of emotional self-regulation, self-compassion, and secure attachment to God.