College of Preschool and Primary Education, China West Normal University, Nanchong 637002, China.
Department of Psychology, Institute of Education, China West Normal University, Nanchong 637002, China.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Dec 13;19(24):16702. doi: 10.3390/ijerph192416702.
Parental psychological control has been found to be a vital familial factor that is closely related to adolescents' addiction behaviors with regard to smartphones and the internet. However, the underlying mechanisms of these associations are less clear. The aim of the present study was to examine whether shyness mediated the relationships between parental psychological control and these two addiction behaviors. A positivist paradigm was used in the present study. The questionnaires (parental psychological control, shyness, and smartphone and internet addiction questionnaires) were used to collect data from a sample of 1857 Chinese adolescents (961 female, 896 male) in junior and senior middle schools. Descriptive statistics as well as correlation and mediation tests were employed to analyze the data. We observed that adolescents with siblings showed a higher level of internet addiction than those with no siblings. Moreover, three dimensions of parental psychological control were positively associated with addiction behaviors. The following analyses displayed that the correlation between authority assertion and smartphone addiction was greater than that between authority assertion and internet addiction. Subsequently, shyness was significantly positively related to parental psychological control and addiction behaviors. Importantly, we found that the relations between the three dimensions of parental psychological control and the addiction behaviors concerning smartphones and the internet were partially mediated by shyness. This study contributes to our understanding of how parental psychological control predicts high levels of adolescents' addiction behaviors surrounding smartphones and the internet.
父母心理控制被发现是一个重要的家庭因素，与青少年智能手机和互联网成瘾行为密切相关。然而，这些关联的潜在机制还不太清楚。本研究旨在探讨羞怯是否在父母心理控制与这两种成瘾行为之间的关系中起中介作用。本研究采用实证主义范式。问卷调查（父母心理控制、羞怯和智能手机与互联网成瘾问卷）用于从初中和高中的 1857 名中国青少年（961 名女性，896 名男性）样本中收集数据。采用描述性统计、相关和中介检验对数据进行分析。我们发现，有兄弟姐妹的青少年比没有兄弟姐妹的青少年更容易出现网络成瘾。此外，父母心理控制的三个维度与成瘾行为呈正相关。分析显示，权威主张与智能手机成瘾的相关性大于权威主张与网络成瘾的相关性。随后，羞怯与父母心理控制和成瘾行为显著正相关。重要的是，我们发现父母心理控制的三个维度与智能手机和互联网成瘾行为之间的关系部分受到羞怯的中介作用。本研究有助于我们理解父母心理控制如何预测青少年在智能手机和互联网周围的高度成瘾行为。
