Piao Mei Ying, Jeong Eui Jun, Kim Jeong Ae
Department of Digital Culture & Contents, Konkuk University, Seoul 05029, Korea.
Department of Humanities Counseling & Therapy, Konkuk University, Seoul 05029, Korea.
Healthcare (Basel). 2022 Nov 8;10(11):2233. doi: 10.3390/healthcare10112233.
Parents' negative affect could lead to the deterioration of the mental state of their adolescent children. According to previous studies, children of parents who have symptoms of depression or anxiety are more likely to have mental problems. As one of the most important issues concerning adolescents with the rapid rise of screen time, the concern for pathological gaming among adolescents continues to intensify. Many studies have demonstrated the remarkable relationships between adolescents' pathological gaming and mental factors, but seldom examined them via longitudinal analysis. With three-year data from adolescents (N = 778) and their parents (N = 685) in South Korea, this study assessed the effects of parents' negative affect (depression and anxiety) on pathological gaming using adolescents' mental factors (i.e., aggression, ADHD, self-control). The results showed the critical role of parents' negative affect on their children's mental health, which finally leads to pathological gaming among adolescents. Depressive parents increased the degree of adolescents' aggression and ADHD, and decreased the degree of adolescents' self-control. Anxious parents increased the degree of adolescents' ADHD. Moreover, both adolescents' aggression and self-control mediated the relationship between parents' depression and adolescents' pathological gaming. Specifically, self-control was one of the most influential factors contributing to pathological gaming among adolescents.
父母的消极情绪可能会导致其青春期子女的心理状态恶化。根据以往的研究，父母有抑郁或焦虑症状的孩子更有可能出现心理问题。随着青少年屏幕使用时间的迅速增加，病理性游戏作为青少年面临的最重要问题之一，人们对其的关注持续加剧。许多研究已经证明了青少年病理性游戏与心理因素之间的显著关系，但很少通过纵向分析来研究它们。本研究利用韩国青少年（N = 778）及其父母（N = 685）的三年数据，评估了父母的消极情绪（抑郁和焦虑）通过青少年的心理因素（即攻击性、注意力缺陷多动障碍、自我控制）对病理性游戏的影响。结果表明，父母的消极情绪对其子女的心理健康起着关键作用，最终导致青少年出现病理性游戏。抑郁的父母会增加青少年的攻击性和注意力缺陷多动障碍程度，并降低青少年的自我控制程度。焦虑的父母会增加青少年的注意力缺陷多动障碍程度。此外，青少年的攻击性和自我控制都在父母的抑郁与青少年病理性游戏之间的关系中起中介作用。具体而言，自我控制是导致青少年病理性游戏的最具影响力的因素之一。
