Ma Shutao, Huang Yuhuai, Ma Yankun
School of Education, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, China.
Front Psychol. 2020 May 12;11:813. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00813. eCollection 2020.
Previous studies have found that childhood maltreatment is an important risk predictor of adolescent mobile phone addiction (MPA). However, little is known about the mediating and moderating mechanisms underlying this association. Grounded in the Basic Psychological Needs Theory and the organism-environment interaction model, this study examined the mediating effect of loneliness and the moderating effect of self-control in the relationship between childhood maltreatment and adolescent MPA. A total of 981 Chinese adolescents (Mage = 13.68 years, = 0.92) completed measures regarding childhood maltreatment, MPA, loneliness, and self-control. After controlling for participants' demographic variables, loneliness partially mediated the relation between childhood maltreatment and adolescent MPA and this indirect path was moderated by self-control. Specifically, the effect of loneliness on MPA was stronger for adolescents with lower self-control than for those with higher self-control. Our research provides additional evidence for the negative association between childhood maltreatment and MPA.
以往研究发现，童年期受虐是青少年手机成瘾（MPA）的一个重要风险预测因素。然而，对于这种关联背后的中介和调节机制，我们却知之甚少。基于基本心理需求理论和机体-环境交互模型，本研究考察了孤独感在童年期受虐与青少年手机成瘾关系中的中介作用，以及自我控制在其中的调节作用。共有981名中国青少年（年龄中位数Mage = 13.68岁，标准差 = 0.92）完成了关于童年期受虐、手机成瘾、孤独感和自我控制的测量。在控制了参与者的人口统计学变量后，孤独感部分中介了童年期受虐与青少年手机成瘾之间的关系，且这条间接路径受到自我控制的调节。具体而言，对于自我控制能力较低的青少年，孤独感对手机成瘾的影响要比对自我控制能力较高的青少年更强。我们的研究为童年期受虐与手机成瘾之间的负向关联提供了更多证据。
