Beyond the Scroll: Exploring How Intolerance of Uncertainty and Psychological Resilience Explain the Association Between Trait Anxiety and Doomscrolling

IF 3.5 2区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL Personality and Individual Differences Pub Date : 2024-10-28 DOI:10.1016/j.paid.2024.112919

Tuğba Türk-Kurtça , Metin Kocatürk

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This study explores the relationship between “doomscrolling”—the habit of consuming continuous negative news—and trait anxiety, while considering the explanatory role of psychological resilience and intolerance of uncertainty. With constant connectivity and information overload in the digital age, doomscrolling has raised concerns about its potential to heighten anxiety. The study examines 443 participants (79.9 % female, 20.1 % male, average age 23.49 years) using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) to assess the connections between the variables.

Key findings reveal that trait anxiety significantly predicts intolerance of uncertainty (β = 0.50, p < .001) and is negatively linked to psychological resilience (β = −0.19, p < .001). Intolerance of uncertainty is negatively correlated with psychological resilience (β = −0.42, p < .001) and positively associated with doomscrolling (β = 0.29, p < .001). Psychological resilience acts as a protective factor, negatively associated with doomscrolling (β = −0.12, p < .05). Additionally, both psychological resilience and intolerance of uncertainty explain the relationship between trait anxiety and doomscrolling (β = 0.193, p < .05). These results provide insights into how intolerance of uncertainty and psychological resilience influence the connection between anxiety and doomscrolling, suggesting intervention opportunities in an anxiety-inducing digital world.

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超越卷轴：探索不确定性的不耐受性和心理复原力如何解释特质焦虑与末日滚动之间的关联

本研究探讨了 "doomscrolling"--持续浏览负面新闻的习惯--与特质焦虑之间的关系，同时考虑了心理复原力和对不确定性的不容忍度的解释作用。随着数字时代的不断连接和信息超载，"末日滚动 "引发了人们对其可能加剧焦虑的担忧。研究使用结构方程模型（SEM）对 443 名参与者（79.9% 为女性，20.1% 为男性，平均年龄 23.49 岁）进行了调查，以评估变量之间的联系。主要结果显示，特质焦虑可显著预测对不确定性的不容忍度（β = 0.50，p < .001），并与心理复原力呈负相关（β = -0.19，p < .001）。对不确定性的不容忍度与心理复原力呈负相关（β = -0.42，p < .001），与末日滚动呈正相关（β = 0.29，p < .001）。心理复原力是一个保护因素，与末日滚动呈负相关（β = -0.12，p < .05）。此外，心理复原力和对不确定性的不容忍度都能解释特质焦虑与末日滚动之间的关系（β = 0.193，p < .05）。这些结果提供了对不确定性不容忍度和心理复原力如何影响焦虑与末日滚动之间的联系的见解，为在令人焦虑的数字世界中进行干预提供了机会。

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Personality and Individual Differences PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL-

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8.50

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4.70%

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577

审稿时长

41 days

期刊介绍： Personality and Individual Differences is devoted to the publication of articles (experimental, theoretical, review) which aim to integrate as far as possible the major factors of personality with empirical paradigms from experimental, physiological, animal, clinical, educational, criminological or industrial psychology or to seek an explanation for the causes and major determinants of individual differences in concepts derived from these disciplines. The editors are concerned with both genetic and environmental causes, and they are particularly interested in possible interaction effects.