Indirect effects of parental and peer attachment on Internet Gaming Disorder among adolescents: The role of negative automatic thoughts

IF 3.5 2区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL

Personality and Individual Differences Pub Date : 2025-04-02 DOI:10.1016/j.paid.2025.113193

Iulia Maria Coșa , Anca Dobrean , Robert Balazsi , Costina-Ruxandra Poetar

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Abstract

The association between the quality of attachment to parents and peers and Internet Gaming Disorder (IGD) in adolescents shows mixed findings. Moreover, there is little research on the mechanism underlying this relationship. This study aims to investigate the indirect path between attachment to mother, father, and peers and IGD symptomatology via negative automatic thoughts. Exploratory, we tested the role of specific thought content in this relationship. A convenient sample of 697 adolescents (mean age 14,98 years old) were recruited between June and October 2019 from five Romanian high schools. Path analyses performed in Mplus reveal that attachment to both parents and peers is indirectly associated with IGD through adolescents' negative automatic thoughts. In contrast, the only non-significant indirect effects found between attachment figures and IGD were via hostility (for the father) and physical threat and failure (for peers). As results are in line with previous literature on adolescent psychopathology, prevention and intervention studies should target adolescents` cognitive vulnerabilities and also promote healthy relationships with parents and peers. Further discussions and implications are presented in the paper. Nevertheless, studies should longitudinally evaluate the causality of this linkage.

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Personality and Individual Differences PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL-

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8.50

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4.70%

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577

审稿时长

41 days

期刊介绍： Personality and Individual Differences is devoted to the publication of articles (experimental, theoretical, review) which aim to integrate as far as possible the major factors of personality with empirical paradigms from experimental, physiological, animal, clinical, educational, criminological or industrial psychology or to seek an explanation for the causes and major determinants of individual differences in concepts derived from these disciplines. The editors are concerned with both genetic and environmental causes, and they are particularly interested in possible interaction effects.