Impact of distress and anxiety due to COVID-19 on digital addictions in university students in the third wave period .

Q2 Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics F1000Research Pub Date : 2025-01-27 eCollection Date: 2024-01-01 DOI:10.12688/f1000research.154696.1

Walter Capa-Luque, Luz Elizabeth Mayorga-Falcón, Evelyn Barboza-Navarro, Armando Martínez-Portillo, Yovana Pardavé-Livia, Edmundo Hervias-Guerra, Aldo Bazán-Ramírez, Catalina Bello-Vidal

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Background: Digital addictions are a major problem worldwide, which has increased considerably during the COVID-19 pandemic. In this scenario, two important impact factors to explain this problem are stress and anxiety because of COVID-19. The objective of this research was to determine the impact of distress and anxiety due to COVID-19 on digital addictions.

Methods: cross-sectional, explanatory study. A total of 802 students from public and private universities residing in the city of Lima and Callao (Peru), with a mean age of 21.68 (SD = 3.11), selected by convenience sampling, participated in the study. The MULTICAGE CAD-4 questionnaire, the distress scale, and the anxiety scale by COVID-19 were applied.

Results: two models examined with structural equation modeling showed good fit indices (CFI and TLI > .95, RMSEA and SRMR < .06). The first model shows that the latent variables distress and anxiety due to COVID-19 have direct effects on digital addictions as a general construct (R ² = 22%). The second model shows that the exogenous latent variables (stress and anxiety) have direct effects of different magnitudes on each digital technology, so the variance explained on smartphone addiction was higher (R ² = 25%) with respect to internet (R ² = 19%) and video game addiction (R ² = 6%). It was also found that for every male, there are two females with high levels of distress and anxiety. Regarding the problematic use of smartphones and internet, there is a prevalence of 40% regardless of sex; but as for the problematic use of video games, there is a marked difference between males (18.8%) and females (2.7%).

Conclusion: the distress and anxiety caused by COVID-19 have a direct impact in aggravating digital addictions.

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摘要*：背景：数字成瘾是世界范围内的一个主要问题，在2019冠状病毒病大流行期间，这一问题大幅增加。在这种情况下，解释这一问题的两个重要影响因素是COVID-19带来的压力和焦虑。本研究的目的是确定COVID-19导致的痛苦和焦虑对数字成瘾的影响。方法：横断面、解释研究。采用方便抽样的方法，选取居住在秘鲁利马市和卡亚俄市的公立和私立大学的802名学生参与研究，平均年龄21.68岁（SD = 3.11）。采用MULTICAGE CAD-4问卷、焦虑量表和COVID-19焦虑量表。结果：两个模型经结构方程模型检验，拟合指数较好（CFI和TLI均< 0.95，RMSEA和SRMR < .06）。第一个模型表明，由于COVID-19引起的潜在变量苦恼和焦虑作为一般结构对数字成瘾有直接影响（r2 = 22%）。第二个模型显示，外源性潜在变量（压力和焦虑）对每种数字技术都有不同程度的直接影响，因此智能手机成瘾的方差（r2 = 25%）相对于互联网（r2 = 19%）和电子游戏成瘾（r2 = 6%）更高。研究还发现，每有一个男性，就有两个女性有高度的痛苦和焦虑。关于智能手机和互联网的使用问题，无论性别，都有40%的患病率；但对于电子游戏的问题使用，男性（18.8%）和女性（2.7%）之间存在显著差异。结论：新冠肺炎引发的痛苦和焦虑对加重数字成瘾有直接影响。

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Impact of distress and anxiety due to COVID-19 on digital addictions in university students in the third wave period .

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Impact of distress and anxiety due to COVID-19 on digital addictions in university students in the third wave period .