Resilience fully mediated in the link between risk of smartphone addiction and life satisfaction among college students

ABSTRACT Objective: Life satisfaction is one of the most important indicators of psychological health for college students. Therefore, investigating the factors that influence the level of life satisfaction of college students can help develop intervention programs to improve student life satisfaction. This study investigates the mediating effect of resilience in the link between risk of smartphone addiction (RSA) and life satisfaction among college students. Method: A cross-sectional study design was used. Four hundred twenty-three Vietnamese university students (Mage = 18.78, SD  = 0.925) completed The Smartphone addiction scale – Short version (SAS –SV), The Connor – Davidson Resilience scale (CD-RISC-10) and The Life satisfaction scale (SWLS). The SPSS 20 and PROCESS 3.5 (Model 4) were used to test the hypotheses. Results: The results indicated that RSA did not predict life satisfaction among Vietnamese students (B = −0.052, SE = 0.035, p > 0.05, 95% CI = [−0.120, 0.017]). More importantly, resilience fully mediated the link between RSA and life satisfaction (B = −0.020, SE = 0.010, 95% CI = [−0.041, −0.004]). Discussion: The findings of this study not only contribute to expanding the mechanism of the association between RSA and life satisfaction, but also provide a theoretical basis for interventions to improve life satisfaction for students.