Internet addiction and depressive and anxious symptoms among Chinese rural left‐behind adolescents: Mediating roles of resilience and friendship quality.

Background: Rural left‐behind adolescents are more vulnerable to Internet addiction and depressive and anxious symptoms due to the lack of family support and parental supervision. This study was the first to investigate the longitudinal relationships between Internet addiction and depressive and anx...

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Publicado en:Child: Care, Health & Development Vol. 50; no. 1; pp. 1 - 13
Autores principales: Shang, Ruizhe, Pang, Huasheng, Jiang, Jianjun, Ji, Yuanyi, Liu, Qijiao, Zhang, Ming, Yang, Ruixi, Li, Shiying, Li, Yuchen, Liu, Qiaolan
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Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell Jan2024
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          Shang, Ruizhe
          Pang, Huasheng
          Jiang, Jianjun
          Ji, Yuanyi
          Liu, Qijiao
          Zhang, Ming
          Yang, Ruixi
          Li, Shiying
          Li, Yuchen
          Liu, Qiaolan
        affil: Department of Health Behavior and Social Medicine, West China School of Public Health and West China Fourth Hospital, Research Center for Palliative Care, West China‐PUMC C.C. Chen Institute of Health, Sichuan University, Chengdu, People's Republic of China
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          Internet Addiction
          Depression
          Anxiety Symptoms
          Hardiness
          Friendship
          Chinese Persons In Adolescence
          Causality Evaluation
          Child, Abandoned Psychosocial Factors
          Human
          Adolescence
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          Prospective Studies
          Structural Equation Modeling
          Rural Areas
          Confidence Intervals
          Descriptive Statistics
          Adolescent: 13-18 years
      ab: Background: Rural left‐behind adolescents are more vulnerable to Internet addiction and depressive and anxious symptoms due to the lack of family support and parental supervision. This study was the first to investigate the longitudinal relationships between Internet addiction and depressive and anxious symptoms and to examine the mediating roles of resilience and friendship quality in rural left‐behind adolescents. Methods: Included in this study, which was from a longitudinal study conducted five times over 2 years, were 1001 rural left‐behind adolescents. The internationally used scales for depressive and anxious symptoms, Internet addiction, resilience and friendship quality were administered. A structural equation model was used for analysis. Results: The prevalence of Internet addiction, depressive and anxious symptoms among rural left‐behind adolescents were 17.7%, 35.8% and 27.6%, respectively. Internet addiction predicted the later depressive and anxious symptoms (β = 0.200, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.116–0.274 and β = 0.263, 95% CI: 0.188–0.330). Resilience acted as an independent mediator in the relationships between Internet addiction and depressive and anxious symptoms (β = 0.037 and 0.034, P < 0.01). Resilience and friendship quality played a chain‐mediating role on the longitudinal relationships between Internet addiction and depressive and anxious symptoms (β = 0.011 and 0.010, P < 0.001). The mediating effects accounted for 24.0% and 16.7% of the total effects, respectively. Conclusion: Resilience and friendship quality play an independent or chain‐mediating role in longitudinal relationships between Internet addiction and depressive and anxious symptoms. The findings inform targeted intervention strategies to improve the mental health of left‐behind adolescents.
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