School of Educational Science, Shanxi University, No. 92 Wucheng Road, Xiaodian District, Taiyuan, 030006, China.
School of Education, Zhengzhou University, No. 100 Science Street, Zhengzhou, 450001, China.
J Youth Adolesc. 2020 Feb;49(2):427-437. doi: 10.1007/s10964-019-01185-x. Epub 2019 Dec 27.
Parental phubbing refers to the extent to which parents use or are distracted by their cell phone when they interact with their children. There has been growing scholarly interest in understanding the adverse effects of parental phubbing on adolescents' development. However, it is less clear whether parental phubbing potentially increases adolescents' depressive symptoms, to date, and the understanding of the factors which may affect this relationship is also limited. The current study, therefore, examined the relationship between parental phubbing and adolescents' depressive symptoms and sought to determine whether self-esteem and perceived social support simultaneously moderated this relationship. The participants included 2407 students (1202 girls; Mage = 12.75, SD = 0.58) from seven middle schools in China. They completed the questionnaires regarding their experience with parental phubbing, self-esteem, perceived social support, and depressive symptoms. Results indicated that adolescents with a high level of parental phubbing were likely to have a high level of depressive symptoms, after controlling age, gender, and perceived economic stress. Low self-esteem adolescents who experienced higher levels of parental phubbing were more likely to be depressed than high self-esteem adolescents. Furthermore, higher levels of parental phubbing significantly predicted increases in adolescents' depressive symptoms when their self-esteem and perceived social support were both low, or one was low. In contrast, this effect became nonsignificant when adolescents' self-esteem and perceived social support were both high. Parents who are concerned about adolescents' depressive symptoms should pay closer attention to adolescents' self-esteem, as well as their perceived social support, in order to provide appropriate interventions.
父母忽视，是指父母在与孩子互动时使用手机或被手机分心的程度。学者越来越关注父母忽视对青少年发展的不良影响。然而，目前尚不清楚父母忽视是否会增加青少年的抑郁症状，而且对于可能影响这种关系的因素的理解也有限。因此，本研究考察了父母忽视与青少年抑郁症状之间的关系，并试图确定自尊和感知到的社会支持是否同时调节这种关系。参与者包括来自中国七所中学的 2407 名学生（1202 名女生；Mage=12.75，SD=0.58）。他们完成了关于父母忽视、自尊、感知到的社会支持和抑郁症状的问卷。结果表明，在控制年龄、性别和感知到的经济压力后，经历高水平父母忽视的青少年更有可能出现高水平的抑郁症状。与高自尊的青少年相比，经历更高水平父母忽视的低自尊青少年更有可能抑郁。此外，当青少年的自尊和感知到的社会支持都较低，或者只有一个较低时，较高水平的父母忽视显著预测了青少年抑郁症状的增加。相比之下，当青少年的自尊和感知到的社会支持都较高时，这种影响变得不显著。关注青少年抑郁症状的父母应该更加关注青少年的自尊以及他们感知到的社会支持，以便提供适当的干预措施。
