Short-Video Social Media Use on Anxiety: Evidence form Graduate Students

Manzhi Liu; Yixuan Hu

doi:10.71204/1k7yq735

Authors

Manzhi Liu Huaihua University Author
Yixuan Hu Huaihua University Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.71204/1k7yq735

Keywords:

Short-Video Social Media Use, Sleep Procrastination, Anxiety, Time Management Skills, Graduate Students

Abstract

In the context of digital transformation, short-video social media has become a central element in graduate students’ daily lives. The mental health risks and behavioral deviations resulting from its excessive use have emerged as a critical topic in organizational behavior and higher education management. Drawing on an integrated perspective of self-regulatory failure theory and conservation of resources theory, this study develops a moderated mediation model in which sleep procrastination mediates the relationship between short-video social media use and anxiety, and time management skills serves as a boundary condition. Using survey data from 486 graduate students across six universities and structural equation modeling for empirical testing, this study finds that short-video social media use is positively and significantly related to graduate students’ anxiety, and that short-video social media use is also positively and significantly associated with sleep procrastination. Sleep procrastination partially mediates the link between short-video social media use and anxiety, and time management skills significantly moderates the association between sleep procrastination and anxiety. This study reveals the underlying mechanism through which digital media use affects graduate students’ mental health, broadens the application of self-regulatory failure theory in digital behavior research, and provides empirical implications for universities to implement targeted management practices and for graduate students to enhance self-regulation abilities.

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