Internet Gaming Addiction or Online Social Networking Addiction? Evidence from Chinese Adolescents Facing Parental Phubbing.
This study primarily aims to examine how online social networking addiction and Internet gaming addiction mediate the association of parental phubbing with subjective well-being among Chinese adolescents. The other aim is to investigate the potential gender difference in these interrelationships of...
| Published in: | International Journal of Mental Health & Addiction Vol. 24; no. 2; pp. 1219 - 1234 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=193493007&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 193493007 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 15571874 46AW jtl: International Journal of Mental Health & Addiction issn: 15571874 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Apr2026 vid: 24 iid: 2 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature artinfo: ui: 193493007 10.1007/s11469-025-01451-z ppf: 1219 ppct: 15 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 1.1MB tig: atl: Internet Gaming Addiction or Online Social Networking Addiction? Evidence from Chinese Adolescents Facing Parental Phubbing. aug: au: Wang, Zhiyou Jiang, Chaoxin Dai, Heng Xu, Yan affil: https://ror.org/01y1kjr75 Department of Social Work and Social Policy, Nankai University, Tianjin, China https://ror.org/02n96ep67 School of Social Development, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China su: China Gaming disorder Social media addiction Gender differences (Sociology) Treatment programs Subjective well-being (Psychology) Parenting Structural equation modeling Chinese people sug: subj: Gaming disorder Social media addiction Gender differences (Sociology) Treatment programs Subjective well-being (Psychology) Parenting China Other Individual and Family Services Structural equation modeling Chinese people keyword: Internet gaming addiction Online social networking addiction Parental phubbing Subjective well-being Internet gaming addiction Online social networking addiction Parental phubbing Subjective well-being ab: This study primarily aims to examine how online social networking addiction and Internet gaming addiction mediate the association of parental phubbing with subjective well-being among Chinese adolescents. The other aim is to investigate the potential gender difference in these interrelationships of parental phubbing, Internet gaming addiction, online social networking addiction, and subjective well-being. The data were collected from a large random questionnaire survey of 1115 school-aged students (47.5% were males and 48.4% were females, mean age = 14.93, standard deviation = 1.95) in Sichuan Province, China. Latent-variable structural equation modeling and multiple-group comparative analyses were conducted to test the proposed theoretical model. Results showed that only Internet gaming addiction significantly mediated the link between parental phubbing and subjective well-being, and the intermediary effect of online social networking addiction was insignificant. Gender difference was found on the path from parental phubbing to adolescents' subjective well-being by Internet gaming addiction. The results of this study revealed that Internet gaming addiction plays a crucial role in the association between parental phubbing and adolescents' subjective well-being with gender difference. This understanding provides empirical support for clinicians and social workers to develop and formulate prevention and intervention strategies for different gender groups to improve the well-being of adolescents facing parental phubbing. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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