Parental mental health and Internet Addiction in adolescents

Lam, Lawrence T.

doi:10.1016/j.addbeh.2014.10.033

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“…The results of our study were contradictory to those of other studies. Lam’s study indicated that mother’s education level was not associated with Internet addiction among children, and another study also showed that parental educational attainment was only associated with male children’s addictive Internet use [9]. However, our study showed a correlation between maternal high education level and Internet addiction among children.…”

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“…Unfortunately, we could find just a few studies about the association between parental depression and Internet addiction among children. Lam found that the association between parental depression and Internet addiction among adolescents might reflect the relationship of the children’s depression status and their parents’ depression [9]. In addition, parental mental health also plays a significant role in the development of Internet addiction among children.…”

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“…However, few studies have focused on the relationship between parental mental health and Internet addiction among adolescents [9]. Parental depression has extensive consequences on family life and children’s social adjustment and mental health, and these results induce major psychiatric problems such as depression and anxiety among these children [10, 11].…”

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The association between parental depression and adolescent’s Internet addiction in South Korea

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BackgroundA number of risk factors for Internet addiction among adolescents have been identified to be associated with their behavior, familial, and parental factors. However, few studies have focused on the relationship between parental mental health and Internet addiction among adolescents. Therefore, we investigated the association between parental mental health and children’s Internet addiction by controlling for several risk factors.MethodsThis study used panel data collected by the Korea Welfare Panel Study in 2012 and 2015. We focused primarily on the association between Internet addiction which was assessed by the Internet Addiction Scale (IAS) and parental depression which was measured with the 11-item version of the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale. To analyze the association between parental depression and log-transformed IAS, we conducted multiple regression analysis after adjusting for covariates.ResultsAmong 587 children, depressed mothers and fathers comprised 4.75 and 4.19%, respectively. The mean IAS score of the adolescents was 23.62 ± 4.38. Only maternal depression (β = 0.0960, p = 0.0033) showed higher IAS among children compared to nonmaternal depression. Strongly positive associations between parental depression and children’s Internet addiction were observed for high maternal education level, adolescents’ gender, and adolescent’s academic performance.ConclusionsMaternal depression is related to children’s Internet addiction; particularly, mothers who had graduated from the university level or above, male children, and children’s normal or better academic performance show the strongest relationship with children’s Internet addiction.

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“…A study of 1808 high school students in Taiwan indicated that weaker parental attachment was associated with internet addiction and cyberbullying (Chang et al, 2015). Evidence also indicates a relationship between parental depression and internet addiction in adolescents in a study of 1098 parent-and-child dyads in Hong Kong (Lam, 2015). In a longitudinal study of Korean children, “higher democratic parenting” (p. 1) (defined as being warm, with supervision and rational explanations) was associated with less addictive use of smartphones (Bae, 2015).…”

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Family Digital Literacy Practices and Children’s Mobile Phone Use

Terras

Ramsay

2016

Front. Psychol.

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Smart phones are ubiquitous in everyday life and are having a major impact on work, education, social relationships and modes of communication. Children are the fastest growing population of smart phone users, with use often focusing around internet access, e.g., 1 in 3 internet users in the UK are under 18 years of age. Despite their widespread use, relatively little is known about the factors that underpin children’s use. The home is a significant ecological context of development and recent research has highlighted the importance of the home environment in promoting and supporting the development of both safe and unsafe online behavior. Yet the importance of these influences currently remains relatively unrecognized. Therefore, in this paper we present a narrative review of evidence examining parental practices concerning digital communication technologies and applications, with a particular focus on smartphones, and how they relate to the use of technology by their children. Emerging evidence to date indicates that two important factors are at play. Firstly, parental technology use is closely related to that of their child. Secondly, that despite parents frequently voiced concerns about the nature and extent of their child’s mobile phone use, parents themselves often engage in a number of unsafe internet behaviors and excessive phone use in the home environment. Our review identifies two crucial lines of enquiry that have yet to be comprehensively pursued by researchers in the field: firstly, the adoption of a psychological perspective on children’s emergent behaviors with mobile devices and secondly, the influential role of context. Given parental concerns about the possible negative impact of technologies, parental awareness should be raised about the influence of their behavior in the context of internet safety along with the adoption of good digital literacy practices. It is anticipated that a comprehensive characterization of the associated contextual factors influencing smartphone use will serve as a catalyst for debate, discussion, and future research.

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“…social isolation and family problems) [9, 10], mental problems (e.g. anxiety and substance addiction) [11,12], and high stress [13].…”

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Incidence and predictive factors of Internet addiction among Chinese secondary school students in Hong Kong: a longitudinal study

Lau

Gross

et al. 2017

Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol

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Parental mental health and Internet Addiction in adolescents

Cited by 79 publications

References 24 publications

The association between parental depression and adolescent’s Internet addiction in South Korea

The association between parental depression and adolescent’s Internet addiction in South Korea

Family Digital Literacy Practices and Children’s Mobile Phone Use

Incidence and predictive factors of Internet addiction among Chinese secondary school students in Hong Kong: a longitudinal study

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