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Understanding adolescents' problematic internet use from a social/cognitive and addiction research framework
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Yu, JJ and Kim, H and Hay, I, Understanding adolescents' problematic internet use from a social/cognitive and addiction research framework, Computers in Human Behavior, 29, (6) pp. 2682-2689. ISSN 0747-5632 (2013) [Refereed Article]
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Copyright 2013 Elsevier.
DOI: doi:10.1016/j.chb.2013.06.045
Abstract
As Internet usage has become more prevalent among youth, so too has problematic Internet use. Despite
the critical role of emotion regulation in the development of adolescents’ behaviors and the role of parenting
interactions on their children’s behaviors, little research has examined these links with reference
to problematic and addictive Internet use for adolescents. The main goal of this study was to examine
these links, based on a sample of 525 high school students (368 males; M = 15.33 years, SD = 0.47) from
a predominantly middle and lower-middle socioeconomic community in Seoul, Korea. Results from
structural equation modeling revealed that students’ difficulties in emotion regulation was a mediating
variable between students’ perceptions of their parents’ parenting behaviors and the students’ Internet
use. The findings substantiate the importance of conceptualizing addiction from a social/cognitive theoretical
framework and the notion that adolescence is the onset period for many addictive behaviors and
so more proactive attention needs to be given to reducing these early negative behaviors. Based on these
results, interventions designed to enhance adolescents’ emotion regulatory abilities have the likelihood
to mitigate problematic and even addictive Internet use among youth.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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Keywords: | parenting behavior, adolescents, emotion regulation, addiction, problematic, internet use |
Research Division: | Education |
Research Group: | Education systems |
Research Field: | Education systems not elsewhere classified |
Objective Division: | Education and Training |
Objective Group: | Other education and training |
Objective Field: | Other education and training not elsewhere classified |
UTAS Author: | Yu, JJ (Dr JJ Yu) |
UTAS Author: | Hay, I (Professor Ian Hay) |
ID Code: | 85762 |
Year Published: | 2013 |
Web of Science® Times Cited: | 60 |
Deposited By: | Education |
Deposited On: | 2013-08-07 |
Last Modified: | 2018-01-25 |
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