从传播中介到情感对象:个体与手机的情感联结与形成机制

From Medium to Communicator:Emotional Attachment to Smartphones and Its Formation Mechanism

随着手机依赖现象愈发普遍,常见的手机成瘾框架无法全面阐释人与手机的密切关系,需要纳入多元视角。基于计算机作为社会行动者范式和人际情感依恋理论,聚焦于个体对作为互动对象的手机产生的情感联结及形成机制,通过结构方程模型建立,发现手机作为亲密关系对象代理的机制,即依靠手机维系亲密关系会促使个体将手机拟人化,视手机为亲密关系对象的实体代理,进而引发对手机的情感依恋。个体在享受手机维系亲密关系的从容与便捷时,也面临着人机交往走向现实而人际交往走向虚拟的危险。

As smartphone dependence becomes increasingly prevalent,the framework of smartphone addiction cannot fully explain intense connections between human and smartphones,which therefore should be considered from diverse perspectives.Based on the paradigm of computers as social actors and attachment theory,this paper focuses on the emotional attachment to smartphones as communicators and its formation mechanism.Through structural equation model,this paper proposes the formation mechanism of smartphones as surrogates of close relationships.Specifically,maintaining close relationships via smartphones prompts users to anthropomorphize smartphones and regard them as surrogates of intimate figures,which then triggers emotional attachment to smartphones.This paper argues that while enjoying the ease and convenience of maintaining close relationships by smartphones,individuals are also running the risks of human-machine interaction going real and interpersonal interaction going virtual.