Social Media Dependence and Relationship Quality on Chinese College Students: A Chained Mediation Model

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10.2991/978-2-38476-551-5_95How to use a DOI?

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social media dependence; relationship quality; social anxiety; social comparison

Abstract

With the continuous development of Internet technology, social media dependence has gradually become a way of life for people, which carries people’s interpersonal relationships, expansion and maintenance. Still, with the intake of complicated news, social media dependence triggers the public’s tendency to make social comparisons and provokes anxiety. This study found that social media dependence can promote relationship satisfaction to some extent, but upward social comparison and social anxiety are fully chain-mediated in this process, i.e., multiple factors mediate the complex process of social media use and improvement in relationship quality that affects people’s interpersonal relationships.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Jialu Qin
AU  - Linjia Li
AU  - Yueyang Ma
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/03/26
TI  - Social Media Dependence and Relationship Quality on Chinese College Students: A Chained Mediation Model
BT  - Proceeding of 2025 8th International Conference on Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICHESS 2025)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 881
EP  - 894
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-551-5_95
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-551-5_95
ID  - Qin2026
ER  -