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Parent-Child Attachment and Adolescents’ Mobile Phone Addiction: The Chain Mediation of Emotion Regulation Self-Efficacy and Loneliness

  • WANG Qian ,
  • FAN Weiqiao
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  • College of Education, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai 200234, China
*FAN Weiqiao, fanweiqiao@shnu.edu.cn

Online published: 2024-06-06

Abstract

Objective: This study examined the effect of parent-child attachment on mobile phone addiction in adolescents and the chain mediation of emotion regulation self-efficacy and loneliness in this relationship.
Methods: A questionnaire survey was conducted among 417 adolescents from a middle school in northern Sichuan Province with convenience sampling method. The Inventory of Parent and Peer Attachment (IPPA), Adolescent Emotion Regulation Self-Efficacy Scale, UCLA Loneliness Scale, and Mobile Phone Addiction Index (MPAI) were used to measure the study variables. Correlation, regression and mediation analysis were conducted on these data.
Results: (1) Parent-child attachment was significantly positively associated with emotion regulation self-efficacy and significantly negatively associated with loneliness and adolescent mobile phone addiction; (2) parent-child attachment could directly predict mobile phone addiction of adolescents and also indirectly predict it by the mediating roles of emotion regulation self-efficacy and loneliness; (3) emotion regulation self-efficacy and loneliness showed significant chain mediating effect in the relationship between parent-child attachment and mobile phone addiction.
Conclusion: Parent-child attachment did not only directly affect mobile phone addiction in adolescents, but also indirectly affect it through emotion regulation of self-efficacy and loneliness.

Cite this article

WANG Qian , FAN Weiqiao . Parent-Child Attachment and Adolescents’ Mobile Phone Addiction: The Chain Mediation of Emotion Regulation Self-Efficacy and Loneliness[J]. Psychological Communications, 2022 , 5(4) : 256 -263 . DOI: 10.12100/j.issn.2096-5494.222041

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