Chen Yan, Gu Qian, Xu Yinghui, Liang Jian, Ni Chuan
Tian Jiabing College of Education, China Three Gorges University, Yichang, 443002, China.
School of Educational Science, Liaocheng University, Liaocheng, 252059, China.
Sci Rep. 2025 May 6;15(1):15777. doi: 10.1038/s41598-025-00876-9.
The family plays an immensely crucial role in the development of adolescents, significantly influencing their behavioral patterns. To explore the impact mechanism of the parental mediation (active mediation, restrictive mediation, and parental monitoring) on adolescents' smartphone addiction, and analyze the chain-mediating role of basic psychological needs and fear of missing out (FoMO). Parental Mediation Scale, Smartphone Addiction Scale, Basic Psychological Needs Scale and Fear of Missing Out Scale were administered to 5,841 adolescents. The sample comprised 2,772 boys (47.46%) and 3,069 girls (52.54%) with an age range of 11.5 to 15.3 years (M = 13.35, SD = 1.29). The results indicated that active mediation could negatively predict adolescents' smartphone addiction, whereas restrictive mediation and parental monitoring could positively predict adolescents' smartphone addiction; and after controlling for sex and age, basic psychological needs had a separate mediating effect on parental mediation and smartphone addiction. Moreover, this study observed a chained mediating effect between basic psychological needs and FoMO on the relationship between parental mediation and smartphone addiction. Meanwhile, FoMO did not have a mediating effect on the relationship between parental mediation and smartphone addiction. Based on social cognitive theory and self-determination theory, this study innovatively integrates parental mediation, adolescents' basic psychological needs, fear of missing out, and smartphone addiction into a coherent model. More importantly, it separately examines the effects of active mediation, restrictive mediation, and parental monitoring within the same group of participants, allowing for a cross-comparison of the three types of parental mediation in the study. This provides a theoretical reference for reducing adolescents' smartphone addiction.
家庭在青少年的成长过程中起着极其关键的作用，对他们的行为模式有着重大影响。为了探究父母调节（积极调节、限制调节和父母监控）对青少年智能手机成瘾的影响机制，并分析基本心理需求和错失恐惧（FoMO）的链式中介作用。对5841名青少年施测了父母调节量表、智能手机成瘾量表、基本心理需求量表和错失恐惧量表。样本包括2772名男孩（47.46%）和3069名女孩（52.54%），年龄范围在11.5至15.3岁之间（M = 13.35，SD = 1.29）。结果表明，积极调节能够负向预测青少年的智能手机成瘾，而限制调节和父母监控能够正向预测青少年的智能手机成瘾；在控制性别和年龄后，基本心理需求在父母调节和智能手机成瘾之间具有单独的中介作用。此外，本研究观察到基本心理需求和错失恐惧在父母调节与智能手机成瘾关系之间存在链式中介效应。同时，错失恐惧在父母调节与智能手机成瘾关系之间不具有中介作用。基于社会认知理论和自我决定理论，本研究创新性地将父母调节、青少年的基本心理需求、错失恐惧和智能手机成瘾整合到一个连贯的模型中。更重要的是，它在同一组参与者中分别考察了积极调节、限制调节和父母监控的效果，使得在研究中能够对这三种父母调节方式进行交叉比较。这为减少青少年的智能手机成瘾提供了理论参考。
