Mediating roles of psychological entitlement and presence of meaning in the associations between parental measures (rejection and overprotection) and adolescent internet addiction

IF 4.9 2区医学 Q1 CLINICAL NEUROLOGY

Journal of affective disorders Pub Date : 2025-04-24 DOI:10.1016/j.jad.2025.04.131

Fanchang Kong , Wanshu Wei , Yujuan Xia , Dong Xie , Kairu Xue , Wuyu Wang , Marc N. Potenza

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Abstract

Background

Although internet addiction has been related to negative parenting, few studies have investigated relationships involving parental rejection and parental overprotection and adolescent internet addiction. The present study examined the role of psychological entitlement and the presence of meaning in mediating relationships between parental rejection and overprotection and adolescent internet addiction.

Methods

Self-reported data were drawn from a cross-sectional study involving a large-scale sample of 4091 secondary vocational schools students (45.9 % girls; Mage = 16.77 years, SD = 0.75) in China.

Results

Both parental rejection and overprotection were positively related to internet addiction among vocational school students. Moreover, psychological entitlement and presence of meaning mediated the relationship between parental rejection and internet addiction, while psychological entitlement mediated the link between parental overprotection and internet addiction.

Conclusions

These findings suggest that parental rejection and overprotection may put adolescents at greater risk of social networking and internet game addictions by elevating their level of psychological entitlement and reducing the level of presence of meaning. Limitations and future research directions are also discussed.

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心理权利和意义存在在父母措施（拒绝和过度保护）与青少年网络成瘾关系中的中介作用

虽然网络成瘾与消极的养育方式有关，但很少有研究调查父母拒绝和父母过度保护与青少年网络成瘾之间的关系。本研究考察了心理权利和意义的存在在父母拒绝、过度保护和青少年网络成瘾之间的中介关系中的作用。方法采用横断面研究，对4091名中职学生(45.9%为女生；年龄= 16.77岁，SD = 0.75)。结果父母排斥和过度保护与中职学生网络成瘾呈正相关。此外，心理权利和意义存在在父母拒绝与网络成瘾之间起中介作用，而心理权利在父母过度保护与网络成瘾之间起中介作用。这些发现表明，父母的拒绝和过度保护可能会提高青少年的心理权利水平，降低他们的存在意义水平，从而使他们更容易沉迷于社交网络和网络游戏。并对研究的局限性和未来的研究方向进行了讨论。

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来源期刊

Journal of affective disorders 医学-精神病学

CiteScore

10.90

自引率

6.10%

发文量

1319

审稿时长

9.3 weeks

期刊介绍： The Journal of Affective Disorders publishes papers concerned with affective disorders in the widest sense: depression, mania, mood spectrum, emotions and personality, anxiety and stress. It is interdisciplinary and aims to bring together different approaches for a diverse readership. Top quality papers will be accepted dealing with any aspect of affective disorders, including neuroimaging, cognitive neurosciences, genetics, molecular biology, experimental and clinical neurosciences, pharmacology, neuroimmunoendocrinology, intervention and treatment trials.