Perceived parental monitoring and adolescent internet addiction: A moderated mediation model

Jun 3, 2017Addictive behaviors

How Teens’ Views of Parental Monitoring Relate to Internet Addiction, with Influencing Factors

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A total of 747 Chinese middle school students participated in the study examining factors related to adolescent Internet addiction.

Parental monitoring negatively predicted deviant peer affiliation in adolescents with low effortful control.
Deviant peer affiliation partially mediated the relationship between perceived parental monitoring and Internet addiction.
The indirect relationship between parental monitoring and Internet addiction was influenced by the level of effortful control.
For adolescents with high effortful control, the indirect path from parental monitoring to Internet addiction was not significant.

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Bronfenbrenner's (1979) ecological model focuses on the interrelation between different contexts and the interaction between individuals and their proximal contexts. Based on this theory, the present study tested a moderated mediation model of family, peer, and individual characteristics to investigate how they impact adolescent Internet addiction. Specifically, we examined whether deviant peer affiliation partially mediated the relation between perceived parental monitoring and adolescent Internet addiction, and whether this indirect relation was moderated by effortful control. A total of 747 Chinese middle school students filled out anonymous questionnaires concerning perceived parental monitoring, deviant peer affiliation, effortful control, and Internet addiction. The findings indicated that while the impact of parental monitoring on Internet addiction was partially mediated by deviant peer affiliation, effortful control moderated the first stage of the indirect relationship. For low effortful control adolescents, perceived parental monitoring negatively predicted deviant peer affiliation. Conversely, the indirect path was not significant for high effortful control adolescents. These findings highlight the need to consider family, peer and individual factors simultaneously when evaluating risks associated with adolescent Internet addiction and have important implications for the prevention and intervention of adolescent Internet addiction.

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