A Study on the Relationship Between Social Anxiety and Internet Use Behavior Among College Students

Abstract

The social anxiety and internet use behavior of college students is co-determined by evaluative social situation and networked interaction environment. Cross-section association focused on duration frequency of use has been studied extensively yet failed to explain functional differentiation and cyclical maintenance. Linking cognitive emotional aspect of social anxiety with functional type usage pattern outcome attribute of internet use behavior; proposing propositions for functional differentiation path matching bidirectional effect boundary condition; analyzing emotion regulation difficulty and avoidant use pathway lack of social support and compensatory use pathway self-control depletion and immersive use pathway; constructing an integrated model of multipath coupling and feedback loops; differentiating temporal scale state–trait component; defining moderating boundaries of individual platform context; developing a structured measurement approach that can provide an integrated framework to understand path coupling and conditional associations between them.