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- Title
Parental Phubbing and Internet Gaming Addiction in Children: Mediating Roles of Parent–Child Relationships and Depressive Symptoms.
- Authors
Zhou, Jianhua; Li, Xiang; Gong, Xue
- Abstract
Mounting research has well documented that parental phubbing is significantly associated with Internet gaming addiction (IGA) in children. However, the mediating mechanisms of this relations are poorly understood. This study used a multi-informant design to investigate whether parent–child relationships (closeness and conflict) and depressive symptoms mediate the relation between parental phubbing and IGA. A total of 1,021 Chinese children (44.30 percent girls; Mage = 10.33, standard deviation = 0.98) and their mothers completed anonymous questionnaires. The results showed that parent–child conflict and depressive symptoms each played a mediating role between parental phubbing and the children's IGA, whereas parent–child closeness did not. Moreover, parental phubbing demonstrated an indirect effect on the children's IGA successively through the parent–child conflict and children's depressive symptoms. The findings suggest that improved parent–child relationships and immediate intervention for depressive symptoms can reduce the risk of IGA among children.
- Subjects
PARENT attitudes; CONFIDENCE intervals; CHILD behavior; CRONBACH'S alpha; CHILD Behavior Checklist; PEARSON correlation (Statistics); MENTAL depression; QUESTIONNAIRES; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; COMMUNICATION; INTERNET addiction; VIDEO games; PARENT-child relationships; DATA analysis software; COMPULSIVE behavior; CHILDREN
- Publication
CyberPsychology, Behavior & Social Networking, 2022, Vol 25, Issue 8, p512
- ISSN
2152-2715
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1089/cyber.2022.0021