scholarly journals Parental Attachment and Problematic Internet Use among Chinese Adolescents: The Moderating Role of Gender and Grit

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (23) ◽  
pp. 8933
Author(s):  
Xiaoyu Lan ◽  
Wenchao Wang
Keyword(s):  
Parental Attachment ◽  
Internet Use ◽  
Attachment Security ◽  
Chinese Adolescents ◽  
Maternal Attachment ◽  
Problematic Internet Use ◽  
Health Concern ◽  
Paternal Attachment ◽  
Optimal Functioning

Problematic Internet use (PIU) is currently becoming a more serious public health concern, representing a deleterious effect on adolescent adaptive emotional and behavioral patterns. Given the prevalence of PIU and its deleterious impact on adolescents’ optimal functioning, it is valuable to investigate the risk and protective factors of PIU. Guided by a socio-ecological framework, the current study examines the associations of paternal attachment and maternal attachment with PIU among Chinese adolescents. Furthermore, this study investigates whether adolescents’ gender and grit moderate this association. A total of 2677 Chinese adolescents (56.5% girls; Mage = 15.56; SD = 1.57) was involved in this study. Adolescents were uniformly instructed to complete a battery of self-reported questionnaires. The results of linear regression analyses showed that paternal attachment and maternal attachment security were negatively related to PIU. Moreover, moderation analyses revealed that higher levels of grit buffered against boys’ PIU in the context of paternal attachment security and girls’ PIU in the context of paternal attachment insecurity. The current study suggests that parental attachment security plays an important role in mitigating the likelihood of Chinese adolescents’ PIU. Moreover, the buffering role of grit in PIU varies by the levels of paternal attachment security, depending on the adolescents’ gender.

Trajectory of problematic internet use across the college years: The role of peer internet overuse behavior and peer attitude toward internet overuse

2021 ◽  
Vol 86 ◽  
pp. 64-76
Author(s):  
Jichao Jia ◽  
Wei Tong ◽  
Jintao Zhang ◽  
Fenge Liu ◽  
Xiaoyi Fang
Keyword(s):  
Internet Use ◽  
Problematic Internet Use

Coping as a Mediator Between Parental Attachment and Resilience: An Examination of Differential Effects Between Chinese Adolescents From Single Parent Families Versus Those From Intact Families

2018 ◽  
Vol 122 (2) ◽  
pp. 506-524 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiamei Guo
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Parental Attachment ◽  
Single Parent ◽  
Chinese Adolescents ◽  
Maternal Attachment ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Intact Families ◽  
Single Parent Families

The crude divorce rate has been increasing steadily for over a decade in China. Consequently, more and more children have to face the challenge of growing up in single parent families. The current study investigated the mediating effects of problem-oriented and emotion-oriented coping on the relationship between parental attachment and psychological resilience among a sample of Chinese adolescents from single parent families and intact families. Participants were 975 high school students (44.30% males; aged 15–19 years, M = 16.32 years, SD = 0.74), 871 from intact families and 104 from single parent families. Structural equation modeling showed that security in maternal attachment was positively associated with resilience through the indirect effect of reduced emotion-oriented coping among adolescents from single parent families. Among adolescents from intact families, security in maternal attachment was both directly associated with resilience and indirectly through enhanced problem-oriented and reduced emotion-oriented coping. Security in paternal attachment was associated with resilience both directly and indirectly through enhanced problem-oriented coping as well among those from intact families. Female adolescents exhibited significantly lower levels of resilience than male adolescents did regardless of the marital status of their parents. Limitations and suggestions for future research are discussed.

scholarly journals Problematic internet use in Bangladeshi students: The role of socio-demographic factors, depression, anxiety, and stress

2019 ◽  
Vol 44 ◽  
pp. 48-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammed A. Mamun ◽  
Md. Sharif Hossain ◽  
Abu Bakkar Siddique ◽  
Md. Tajuddin Sikder ◽  
Daria J. Kuss ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Internet Use ◽  
Demographic Factors ◽  
Problematic Internet Use ◽  
Socio Demographic Factors
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