Cellphone-Specific Parenting Practices and Chinese Adolescents’ Cellphone Use and Addiction: A National Survey

Abstract

Abstract: Based on data from 8264 Chinese adolescents and their parents, this study examined associations between cellphone-specific parenting practices and adolescents’ cellphone addiction and the potential mediating roles of cellphone use time spent on various functions in such associations. Results indicated that: a) Parental communication and knowledge directly and negatively predicted adolescents’ cellphone addiction, and parental monitoring was associated positively and directly with adolescents’ cellphone addiction. b) A suppression effect emerged such that parental communication was associated positively with adolescents’ cellphone use time spent on entertainment and communication, which, in turn, positively predicted adolescents’ cellphone addiction. c) Adolescents’ cellphone use time spent on study served as a mediator in the association between parental communication and adolescents’ cellphone addiction. d) Another suppression effect emerged such that parental monitoring negatively predicted adolescents’ cellphone use time spent on entertainment and communication, which further positively predicted adolescents’ cellphone addiction. The results suggest that parents engaging in cellphone-specific behavioral monitoring, high quality communication and warmth can help reduce the incidence of adolescents’ cellphone addiction.

Key words: parenting practices, cellphone use time, cellphone addiction

摘要： 为考察手机使用相关的父母教养行为与青少年手机成瘾的关系以及不同手机功能使用时间的中介作用，本研究采用问卷法调查了全国8261名青少年及其家长。结果显示：（1）父母沟通和知晓均可以直接负向预测青少年手机成瘾，而父母监控直接正向预测青少年手机成瘾；（2）手机娱乐和通讯时间在父母沟通、父母监控对青少年手机成瘾的影响中产生了遮掩效应；（3）手机学习时间在父母沟通影响青少年手机成瘾中起部分中介作用。父母一定程度的行为监控、良好沟通、温暖支持有利于减少青少年手机成瘾问题。

关键词: 父母教养行为, 手机使用时间, 手机成瘾

CLC Number:

B849

MA Rongzi, MENG Haoran, YAN Lili, CHEN Yu, CAO Hongjian, ZHOU Nan, Deng Linyuan, ZHANG Jintao. Cellphone-Specific Parenting Practices and Chinese Adolescents’ Cellphone Use and Addiction: A National Survey[J]. Studies of Psychology and Behavior, 2021, 19(2): 265-272.

马榕梓, 蒙浩然, 阎丽丽, 陈妤, 曹洪健, 周楠, 邓林园, 张锦涛. 手机相关的父母教养行为与青少年手机成瘾：一项全国性调查[J]. 心理与行为研究, 2021, 19(2): 265-272.

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