The Impact of Self-Efficacy, Perceived Stress, and Herd Behavior on Mobile Phone Addiction

This study takes Taiwanese people as the research object and uses a Google form to prepare a questionnaire. It uses convenience sampling to conduct a questionnaire survey through the Google online platform. Through the questionnaire survey, this study can learn about the influence of Taiwanese people's self-efficacy, herd behavior, perceived stress, and mobile phone addiction. The questionnaire administration period was from August 1, 2023, to September 30, 2023, and a total of 300 questionnaires were collected. Regression analysis results show that the explanatory power of the regression model is mobile phone addiction = 1.101-0.147 * self-efficacy +0.489*perceived stress+0.546*herd behavior. After controlling other variables, self-efficacy, perceived stress, and herd behavior explain 30.9% of mobile phone addiction; perceived stress has a positive and significant relationship with mobile phone addiction, with a standardized beta coefficient of 0.267; herd behavior and mobile phone addiction have a positive and significant relationship with a standardized beta coefficient of 0.495. The research results show that perceived stress has a low positive correlation with mobile phone addiction, and herd behavior has a moderate positive correlation with mobile phone addiction. The results show that the higher the perceived stress, the more mobile phone addiction The higher the chance of addiction, the higher the herd behavior, the higher the chance of mobile phone addiction. Perceived stress and herd behavior have a significant impact on mobile phone addiction. The research suggests that people can self-manage the time they use their mobile phones, and they can also plan to relax during their breaks, such as outdoor sports, camping and hiking. Isolate various apps that people feel are disturbing, delete the social media settings on people's mobile phone, and switch to running social media on people's computer.