RT Article
T1 Parental Conflict and Problematic Internet Use in Chinese Adolescents: Testing a Moderated Mediation Model of Adolescents’ Effortful Control and Emotional Dysregulation
JF Journal of interpersonal violence
VO 36
IS 13/14
A1 Qi, Wanxue
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1760355364
AB This study analyzed the association between parental conflict and adolescents’ problematic Internet use (PIU), especially the mediating role of adolescent emotional dysregulation and the moderating role of adolescents’ effortful control. About 870 middle school students participated in this survey, reporting on their perceived parental conflict, their own emotional dysregulation, effortful control, and PIU. The results demonstrated that the association between parental conflict and adolescent PIU was completely mediated by adolescent emotional dysregulation. Adolescent effortful control was found to moderate the indirect relation of parental conflict to adolescent PIU, with parental conflict more strongly associated with PIU for adolescents with lower levels of effortful control. Our findings add to the extant insights on how parental conflict could contribute to adolescent PIU.
K1 problematic Internet use
K1 effortful control
K1 emotional dysregulation
K1 parental conflict
DO 10.1177/0886260518822342