The Impact of Mobile Phone Addiction on Learning Burnout among College Students: the Moderating Role of Self-control

To explore the relationship and mechanism of mobile phone addiction, self-control and learning burnout among college students, 1077 college students were measured by College Students’ Mobile Phone Addiction Tendency Scale, College Students’ Learning Burnout Scale and Self-Control Scale, and the data were analyzed by latent variable structural equation model in this paper. It finds that (1) Mobile phone addiction was positively correlated with learning burnout and its sub-dimensions, and negatively correlated with self-control and its sub-dimensions (P < 0.001). (2) Self-control played a significant moderating role between mobile phone addiction and learning burnout (β = 0.11, P < 0.001); (3) When self-control was high, mobile phone addiction had no significant effect on learning burnout (β = 0.06, P > 0.05). When self-control was low, mobile phone addiction had a significant effect on learning burnout (β = -0.16, P < 0.001). With the increase of mobile phone addiction, learning burnout decreased to a certain extent, but there was always strong learning burnout in the case of low self-control. College students’ mobile phone addiction has a positive impact on learning burnout, and self-control can regulate the relationship between mobile phone addiction and learning burnout.