The Effect of College Students’ Boredom Proneness on Phubbing: The Chain-Mediating Effects of Fear of Missing Out and Online Vigilance

Purpose. Phubbing not only affects the impression formation and communication quality of both sides but also damages peer relationships among college students, reduces happiness interpersonal objects, has a negative impact on physical mental development students. The boredom proneness students is an important influencing factor phubbing, we aim to investigate mechanism its internal influence phubbing. Design Methods. A short version scale, fear missing out online vigilance phubbing scale was used survey 357 Chinese Bootstrap method using SPSS Process macro developed by Hayes test chain-mediating effect in relationship between students’ Results. Boredom proneness, out, vigilance, were significantly positively correlated with each other ( p < 0.05 ). mediated effects showed that predicted there three indirect paths: separate out; vigilance; chain vigilance. mediators accounted for 31.82% total effect. Practice Implications. College can directly affect through prevention should reduce level