Mediating effects of attention problems on the link between parenting style and internet gaming disorder in adolescents

Chung, Sung Ah; Bae, Sujin; Kim, Hee Jin; Lee, Jea-Woog; Hwang, Hyunchan; Han, Doug Hyun

doi:10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1211889

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“…One study obtained results revealed that low-quality parenting behaviors in which parents experience more conflicts and partner's sabotage in parenting practices are associated with more authoritarian and negative parenting styles. 34 Negative parenting styles, such as rejection and overprotection, tend to be predictors of smartphone addiction and online gaming disorder in children and adolescents, 35,36 whereas positive parenting styles are protective, for example, children with warm and democratic parenting styles are less likely to become addicted to smartphones. 37,38 Therefore, it is reasonable to hypothesize that prolonged technological interference in parent-child interactions not only diminishes parenting quality but also impacts parenting styles.…”

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The Relationship of Parent-Child Technoference and Child Problematic Smartphone Use: The Roles of Parent-Child Relationship, Negative Parenting Styles, and Children’s Gender

Shao,

Zhu,

Lei

et al. 2024

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With the increasing ubiquity of smartphones in our daily lives, technoference has emerged as a novel threat to family relationships and child development. This study explored the impact of parent-child technoference on child problematic smartphone use and its underlying mechanism and potential gender difference among children. Participants and Methods:The participants were 3032 fourth-grade students (42.6% female; 80.6% one-child families; 32.9% lower income level families, 33.3% middle income level families; Mage = 10.59 years, SD=0.32) from 535 primary schools. Students in the target classes were invited to participate anonymously in the questionnaire survey in classrooms. Then, SPSS, AMOS and other software were used to analyze the data. Results: 1) Parent-child technoference, negative parenting styles and child problematic smartphone use were positively correlated with each other, while they were negatively correlated with parent-child relationship; 2) Parent-child technoference can not only directly and positively predict child problematic smartphone use, but also indirectly and positively predict child problematic smartphone use through parent-child relationship and negative parenting styles respectively; 3) Parent-child relationship and negative parenting styles play a chain mediating role between parent-child technoference and child problematic smartphone use; 4) There are significant gender differences in the chain mediation model. Conclusion:The results showed that parent-child technoference significantly affected child problematic smartphone use through a chain mediation of parent-child relationship and negative parenting styles. Gender differences were observed, with girls experiencing a more pronounced disruption in the parent-child relationship, while boys were more likely to develop problematic smartphone use. In cases of strained parent-child relationships due to technoference, girls also tended to perceive more negative parenting styles. These findings promote parents' understanding of the influencing factors and mechanisms of child problematic smartphone use, especially helpful for follow-up measures to prevent and intervene child problematic smartphone use from the perspective of families and parents.

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