Department of Preventive Medicine, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea.
Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea.
Epidemiol Health. 2018;40:e2018039. doi: 10.4178/epih.e2018039. Epub 2018 Aug 8.
Open and supportive communication between parents and children is known to reduce adolescents' delinquent behavior. Recently, the risk of Internet gaming disorder (IGD) has been increasing in adolescents. The purpose of this study was to investigate the mediating effects of parent-child communication styles on the relationship between adolescent aggressiveness and risk of IGD.
Participants in this study were 402 first-year students from 4 middle schools in Seoul who enrolled in the Internet user Cohort for Unbiased Recognition of gaming disorder in Early adolescence (iCURE) and completed baseline assessment in 2016. The structural equation model was constructed based on an aggression questionnaire, the Internet game use-elicited symptom screen, a mother-child communication inventory, and a father-child communication inventory.
Adolescents' aggressiveness was found to be related to their risk of IGD. The father-child communication style mediated the relationship between aggression and risk of IGD. However, the mother-child communication style had no mediating effect.
Our findings suggest that fathers should make an effort to improve open and positive communication skills with their children, because the father-child communication style plays an important role in the relationship between adolescent aggressiveness and risk of IGD.
父母与子女之间的开放和支持性沟通已被证明可以减少青少年的犯罪行为。最近，青少年网络游戏障碍（IGD）的风险不断增加。本研究旨在探讨亲子沟通方式对青少年攻击性与 IGD 风险之间关系的中介作用。
本研究的参与者为来自首尔 4 所中学的 402 名一年级学生，他们参加了青少年早期无偏认游戏障碍互联网用户队列（iCURE），并于 2016 年完成了基线评估。结构方程模型是基于攻击性问卷、互联网游戏使用诱发症状筛查、母子沟通量表和父子沟通量表构建的。
青少年的攻击性与他们的 IGD 风险有关。父子沟通方式在攻击性和 IGD 风险之间起中介作用。然而，母子沟通方式没有中介作用。
我们的研究结果表明，父亲应该努力提高与孩子的开放和积极沟通技巧，因为父子沟通方式在青少年攻击性与 IGD 风险之间的关系中起着重要作用。
