Adolescent Internet Abuse: A Study on the Role of Attachment to Parents and Peers in a Large Community Sample.

Adolescents are the main users of new technologies and their main purpose of use is social interaction. Although new technologies are useful to teenagers, in addressing their developmental tasks, recent studies have shown that they may be an obstacle in their growth. Research shows that teenagers wi...

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Publicado en:BioMed Research International Vol. 2018; pp. 1 - 11
Autores principales: Ballarotto, Giulia, Volpi, Barbara, Marzilli, Eleonora, Tambelli, Renata
Formato: research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell 3/8/2018
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          Ballarotto, Giulia
          Volpi, Barbara
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          Internet Addiction In Adolescence
          Attachment Behavior
          Parent-Child Relations
          Peer Group
          Adolescent Behavior
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          Adolescence
          Regression
          Psychopathology
          Mother-Child Relations
          Adolescent: 13-18 years
      ab: Adolescents are the main users of new technologies and their main purpose of use is social interaction. Although new technologies are useful to teenagers, in addressing their developmental tasks, recent studies have shown that they may be an obstacle in their growth. Research shows that teenagers with Internet addiction experience lower quality in their relationships with parents and more individual difficulties. However, limited research is available on the role played by adolescents’ attachment to parents and peers, considering their psychological profiles. We evaluated in a large community sample of adolescents (N=1105) the Internet use/abuse, the adolescents’ attachment to parents and peers, and their psychological profiles. Hierarchical regression analyses were conducted to verify the influence of parental and peer attachment on Internet use/abuse, considering the moderating effect of adolescents’ psychopathological risk. Results showed that adolescents’ attachment to parents had a significant effect on Internet use. Adolescents’ psychopathological risk had a moderating effect on the relationship between attachment to mothers and Internet use. Our study shows that further research is needed, taking into account both individual and family variables.
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