The Association between Parental Psychological Control, Deviant Peer Affiliation, and Internet Gaming Disorder among Chinese Adolescents: A Two-Year Longitudinal Study.
Abundant empirical research indicates a relationship between parental psychological control and adolescent Internet gaming disorder (IGD), but the direction and underlying mechanism of this association remain unclear. Using a two-year longitudinal design across three time points, the present study examined the reciprocal processes between parental psychological control and IGD and explored whether deviant peer affiliation explains this bidirectional association. The sample consisted of 908 participants (480 boys and 428 girls) who participated in three measurements and completed questionnaires assessing parental psychological control, deviant peer affiliation, and IGD. Autoregressive cross-lagged models indicated a direct reciprocal relationship between parental psychological control and IGD. Furthermore, the results showed that parental psychological control exerts an indirect effect on adolescent IGD via deviant peer affiliation, but the inverse indirect effect via deviant peer affiliation was non-significant. Knowledge regarding the direct and underlying mechanisms of the reciprocal relationship between parental psychological control and IGD has important implications for prevention and intervention of adolescent IGD.
['Lin|Shuang|S|', 'Yu|Chengfu|C|', 'Chen|Jun|J|', 'Sheng|Jing|J|', 'Hu|Yousong|Y|', 'Zhong|Lin|L|']
D000293:Adolescent D000294:Adolescent Behavior D044466:Asians D016739:Behavior, Addictive D002681:China D005260:Female D006801:Humans D020407:Internet D000082424:Internet Addiction Disorder D008137:Longitudinal Studies D008297:Male D010287:Parent-Child Relations D010379:Peer Group D018910:Video Games
parental psychological control deviant peer affiliation Internet gaming disorder adolescent longitudinal research