Li Huanhuan, Luo Mengzhen, Duan Bingyu, Kawulia Abidan, Su Menglu, Di Huijuan
College of Educational Science, Xinjiang Normal University, Urumqi, China.
Department of Preschool Education, Hebei Normal University, Shijiazhuang, China.
Front Psychol. 2024 Sep 27;15:1435575. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1435575. eCollection 2024.
Presently, the problem of digital addiction in young children is becoming more and more prominent, and digital addiction can cause significant harm to the healthy physical and mental development of young children. A growing body of research suggests that family socioeconomic status and parenting styles are associated with digital addiction. However, little is known about the mediating and moderating mechanisms behind this relationship, and few studies have explored whether this relationship holds in young children populations. Therefore, the present study aimed to investigate whether parenting styles mediate the relationship between family socioeconomic status and young children's digital addiction and whether young children's gender moderates this mediation process.
A cross-sectional study design was used. 403 parents of young children were asked to complete online questionnaires, including the Internet Addiction Test-10 (IAT-10) the Chinese version of the Parenting Style Questionnaire (C-EMBU). The mediation model with moderation was tested using the PROCESS plug-in for SPSS.
(1) Family socioeconomic status is significantly and negatively associated with digital addiction in young children. (2) Parenting styles (emotional warmth and understanding, punishment and harshness) mediate the relationship between family socioeconomic status and young children's digital addiction. (3) Young children's gender moderates the relationship between family socioeconomic status and punishment and severity parenting styles, emotional warmth and understanding parenting styles and young children's digital addiction.
The results indicate that family socioeconomic status can prevent digital addiction in young children through the path of improving parenting styles. However, there is still an overall negative effect of family socioeconomic status on young children's digital addiction.
当前，幼儿数字成瘾问题日益突出，数字成瘾会对幼儿身心健康发展造成严重危害。越来越多的研究表明，家庭社会经济地位和教养方式与数字成瘾有关。然而，对于这种关系背后的中介和调节机制知之甚少，很少有研究探讨这种关系在幼儿群体中是否成立。因此，本研究旨在探讨教养方式是否在家庭社会经济地位与幼儿数字成瘾之间起中介作用，以及幼儿性别是否调节这一中介过程。
采用横断面研究设计。403名幼儿家长被要求完成在线问卷，包括网络成瘾测试-10（IAT-10）、中文版教养方式问卷（C-EMBU）。使用SPSS的PROCESS插件对带有调节的中介模型进行检验。
（1）家庭社会经济地位与幼儿数字成瘾显著负相关。（2）教养方式（情感温暖与理解、惩罚与严厉）在家庭社会经济地位与幼儿数字成瘾之间起中介作用。（3）幼儿性别调节家庭社会经济地位与惩罚严厉教养方式、情感温暖理解教养方式和幼儿数字成瘾之间的关系。
结果表明，家庭社会经济地位可通过改善教养方式的途径预防幼儿数字成瘾。然而，家庭社会经济地位对幼儿数字成瘾仍存在总体负面影响。
