Developmental trajectories of Internet addiction and its correla

Topic:

Developmental trajectories of Internet addiction and its correlates in high school students

Background:

Internet addiction (IA) is one of the common problematic behaviors.

Adolescents are under the period of construction in cognitive system, who have poor self-control ability. Lured by the anonymity, convenience and escape of Internet and the influence of lots of correlates, adolescents are easy to suffer from IA. Based on the overall scale of adolescents Internet users, adolescents become the potential high risk groups of IA.

IA has serious damage on adolescents’ physical health and mental health. In addition to recognizing the adverse effects of IA, we should take preventive and control measures from  the  comparative  proximal  factors  of  Internet  addiction,  so  as  to  promote  the development of physical and mental health among adolescents.

What:  

The present study aims to explore the relationship between Internet addiction and negative emotion, and to identify common and unique correlates for individual and comorbid negative emotion among high school students in the cross-sectional study.

Based on the ecological systems theory, we aimed to explore the path influence of various microsystem on IA and verify the causal path relationships in the longitudinal study.

To explore the developmental trajectories of IA and correlates, and the influence of developmental trajectories of correlates on IA in high school students.

This study will provide evidence for making preventive strategies and intervention measures for high school students from more perspective that is comprehensive.

Conclusions:

(1) The more risk factors students exposed, the higher risk of having IA only, negative emotion only and their comorbidity they had.

(2) Parental martial conflict, depression and anxiety could influence IA, and peer relationship  could  relieve  the  negative  influence  of  parental  martial  conflict  on depression and anxiety, which in turn decrease the risk of IA.

(3)  Parent-child  relationship  could  influence  IA  and  peer  relationship  could enhance  the  protective  effect  of  parent-child  relationship  on  IA.  Cultivating  good parent-child relationship and peer relationship contributes to reduce IA.

(4)  Parental  martial  conflict,  depression,  anxiety,  parent-child  relationship  and peer  relationship  could  significantly  predict  IA.  There  were  causal relationships between all the above predictors and IA.

(5) Pay more attention to high school students with the average frequency of social networking sites use more than six times every day, 60~150 social networking sites contacts, moderate preference to physical exercise, dislike physical exercise and having peer  alienation  experience,  so  as  to  prevent  the  prevalence  and  degree  of  Internet addiction.

(6) The developmental trajectories of depression, anxiety, stress, parental martial conflict,  parent-child  relationship  and  peer  relationship  could  influence  IA  in  high school students.

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