How does parents' psychological distress relate to adolescents' problematic gaming? The roles of parent-adolescent relationship and adolescents' emotion regulation.

IF 6.6 1区医学 Q1 PSYCHIATRY

Journal of Behavioral Addictions Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Print Date: 2023-12-22 DOI:10.1556/2006.2023.00060

Li Lin, Ruyi Ding, Shiguang Ni

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Abstract

Background and aims: Emerging research has identified parents' psychological distress as a potential risk factor that increases adolescents' vulnerability to problematic gaming. This study attempted to address "why" from a relational perspective. We hypothesized that parents' psychological distress may link to adolescents' problematic gaming through the mediation of parent-child relationship quality, while the mediating effects of parent-child relationship quality may vary depending on adolescents' emotion regulation.

Methods: We collected data from 4,835 parent-child dyads in China (parental age = 41.45 ± 4.53 years; adolescent age = 13.50 ± 1.00 years). Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) was utilized to analyze the relationships among the variables under study.

Results: Parent-reported parental depression/anxiety was related to worse adolescent-reported parent-child relationship, which in turn related to more severe adolescent-reported problematic gaming. Moreover, the mediating effects of parent-child relationship quality were weaker when adolescents used more expressive suppression (but not cognitive reappraisal).

Discussion and conclusions: The findings of this study highlight the need to consider both parent-child relationships and adolescents' active role in their own emotion regulation in order to understand parental influence on adolescent problematic gaming.

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父母的心理困扰与青少年有问题的游戏有何关系？父母-青少年关系与青少年情绪调节的作用。

背景和目的：新出现的研究表明，父母的心理困扰是一个潜在的风险因素，会增加青少年对问题游戏的脆弱性。这项研究试图从关系的角度来探讨“为什么”。我们假设，父母的心理困扰可能通过亲子关系质量的中介与青少年的问题游戏有关，而亲子关系品质的中介作用可能因青少年的情绪调节而异。方法：我们收集了4835名中国亲子二人组（父母年龄=41.45±4.53岁；青少年年龄=13.50±1.00岁）的数据。结构方程建模（SEM）用于分析所研究变量之间的关系。结果：父母报告的父母抑郁/焦虑与青少年报告的亲子关系恶化有关，而青少年报告的问题游戏则更严重。此外，当青少年使用更多的表达抑制（但不是认知重新评价）时，亲子关系质量的中介作用较弱。讨论和结论：本研究的结果强调，需要考虑亲子关系和青少年在自身情绪调节中的积极作用，以了解父母对青少年问题游戏的影响。

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Journal of Behavioral Addictions PSYCHIATRY-

CiteScore

12.30

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7.70%

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审稿时长

20 weeks

期刊介绍： The aim of Journal of Behavioral Addictions is to create a forum for the scientific information exchange with regard to behavioral addictions. The journal is a broad focused interdisciplinary one that publishes manuscripts on different approaches of non-substance addictions, research reports focusing on the addictive patterns of various behaviors, especially disorders of the impulsive-compulsive spectrum, and also publishes reviews in these topics. Coverage ranges from genetic and neurobiological research through psychological and clinical psychiatric approaches to epidemiological, sociological and anthropological aspects.