Family Context Matters: A Serial Mediation Model Extending the Relationship Between Interparental Conflict and Online Gaming Addiction of Adolescents.

This study examined the interactions between the factors from different family subsystems and explored how they contribute to adolescents' online gaming addiction through multiple pathways. Based on a multistage random cluster sampling procedure, a large sample of 2001 Chinese adolescents aged betwe...

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Publicado en:Child & Adolescent Social Work Journal Vol. 43; no. 1; pp. 145 - 156
Autores principales: Cheng, Yuhang, Jiang, Shan
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Springer Nature Feb2026
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          https://ror.org/00t33hh48 Department of Social Work, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T, Hong Kong, China
          https://ror.org/00a2xv884 Department of Sociology, Zhejiang University, No. 866 Yuhangtang Road, 310058, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
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        Anxious attachment
        Emotional symptoms
        Interparental conflict
        Online gaming addiction
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      ab: This study examined the interactions between the factors from different family subsystems and explored how they contribute to adolescents' online gaming addiction through multiple pathways. Based on a multistage random cluster sampling procedure, a large sample of 2001 Chinese adolescents aged between 12 and 18 years old was invited to complete a survey. Data analyses were performed by structural equation modeling in AMOS 26.0. The results indicated that interparental conflict (affiliated with the parental subsystem) was positively associated with adolescents' online gaming addiction. Besides, interparental conflict could extend its impact on adolescent-parent anxious attachment (affiliated with the parent-child subsystem), which was in turn positively associated with online gaming addiction of adolescents. Further, interparental conflict was also positively associated with adolescents' emotional symptoms (affiliated with the adolescent subsystem), and the increased level of emotional symptoms would improve adolescents' probability of being addicted to online gaming subsequently. Moreover, anxious attachment and emotional symptoms formed a serial mediation pathway between interparental conflict and online gaming addiction. This study deepened the current knowledge targeting how adolescents' online gaming addiction was related to interparental conflict through the interplay of family subsystems and it also provided solid evidence for future interventions and social policymaking in the relevant field.
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