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- Title
The Relationship between parental overprotection and college students' mobile phone addiction: Mediating roles of self-concept clarity and anxiety.
- Authors
YONGXUE LI; CHONGZENG BI
- Abstract
Parental overprotection and mobile phone addiction are common phenomena in our daily life that can lead to physical and psychological maladaptation. Although parental overprotection has been considered to be correlated with mobile phone addiction, the underlying mechanisms of their relation are still unclear. The purpose of this study was to investigate the internal influencing mechanisms of parental overprotection on mobile phone addiction, with a focus on the multiple mediating effects of self-concept clarity and anxiety. An online survey was completed by 699 college students (55.79% male). The results showed parental overprotection exerted a significant and positive influence on mobile phone addiction. Self-concept clarity played a partial mediating role between parental overprotection and mobile phone addiction. Anxiety also played a partial mediating role between parental overprotection and mobile phone addiction. Moreover, both self-concept clarity and anxiety were found to play a chain mediating role between parental overprotection and mobile phone addiction. This study highlights the potential mechanisms of action between parental overprotection and mobile phone addiction and found that parental overprotection is a risk factor for mobile phone addiction. Consequently, educational programs that improve the parent-child relationship should be developed to reduce and prevent mobile phone addiction among college students.
- Subjects
PARENTAL overprotection; CELL phones; ADDICTIONS; PARENT-child relationships; PARENTAL influences; COLLEGE students
- Publication
Journal of Behavioral Addictions, 2023, Vol 12, p229
- ISSN
2062-5871
- Publication type
Article