Abstract: It is evident that the Internet has grown exponentially over the past decades. It has become a medium we use habitually in our daily lives to acquire information, optimize our work and escape from reality through a new digital society. Due to the convenient and popularity of mobile phones, e-book, tablets and other mobile terminals, more and more college students enjoy reading Internet fictions. College students are unable to extricate themselves in the virtual network world or emotion experience created by the plot of the fiction. The Internet fiction addiction, as a subclass of Internet addiction or mobile phone addiction, should have caught much research attention. However, compare with the studies of Internet game, entertainment and relationship addictions, the studies of Internet fiction addiction and its mechanism were rare. Thus, more research should be conducted to explore Internet fiction. Research revealed that personality trait, especially the neuroticism, was closely related to Internet addiction. It was generally considered as an important risk factor of addiction. Existing research also has indicated that narrative transportation has a significant effect on people’s action during reading fictions, and narrative transportation together with flow experience might play important roles in the relationship between neuroticism personality and Internet fiction addiction. Thus, the purposes of the present study were to examine the relationship between neuroticism personality and college students’ Internet fiction addiction, as well as the mediating effect of narrative transportation and flow experience in this relationship. . A total of 502 college students took part in the current study. Big Five Personality Inventory-Neuroticism Subscales, Internet Fiction Addiction Scale, Narrative Transportation Scale and Flow Experience Scale were used. Data were collected and analyzed with SPSS 17.0, and the bias-corrected percentile bootstrap method was used to analyze the chain mediating roles of narrative transportation and flow experience between neuroticism personality and students’ Internet fiction addiction. The results were: (1) the relationships between each pair of neuroticism personality, narrative transportation, flow experience and Internet fiction addiction were all significantly positive. (2) Neuroticism personality has a direct effect on Internet fiction addiction; Neuroticism personality can also indirectly affected fiction addiction through two ways: through flow experience; and through the chain mediating effect of narrative transportation and flow experience; The total meditational effect size was 52%, and the effect size through chain mediating effect of narrative transportation and flow experience (36%) was the strongest among the three mediation paths. . In conclusion, Internet fiction addiction may be influenced not only by the individual factors (neuroticism personality), but also by the fiction characters (narrative transportation, flow experience). The results suggested: the higher students' neuroticism personality, the higher the level of narrative transportation and the deeper flow experience would be, which would result in severer Internet fiction addiction. These ?ndings highlight the complex nature of the relationships among college students’ neuroticism personality, narrative transportation, flow experience, and Internet fiction addiction.

Key words: neuroticism personality, Internet fiction addiction, narrative transportation, flow experience

摘要： 本研究以502名大学生为被试，探讨神经质人格与网络小说成瘾的关系以及叙事传输和沉浸感在其中的序列中介作用。结果发现：1）网络小说成瘾与神经质人格、叙事传输和沉浸感之间均呈显著正相关；2）神经质人格不仅可以直接影响网络小说成瘾，还可以通过叙事传输和沉浸感的中介作用对其产生影响，且该中介作用包含了两条路径——沉浸感的单独中介作用以及叙事传输-沉浸感的序列中介作用。这一结论有助于引导和改善大学生的网络小说阅读行为，预防成瘾。

关键词: 神经质人格, 网络小说成瘾, 叙事传输, 沉浸感