Association of Loneliness with Problematic Internet Use Among Adolescents Aged 10 to 16: a Longitudinal Study.
This study aimed to examine the prospective association between loneliness and Problematic Internet Use (PIU) among adolescents aged 10 to 16. This study was conducted using data from the Japan Adolescent and Youth Longitudinal Cohort Study collected in 2022 and 2023. Participants were adolescents i...
| Publicado en: | International Journal of Mental Health & Addiction Vol. 24; no. 4; pp. 3269 - 3287 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=196381877&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 196381877 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: Aug2026 vid: 24 iid: 4 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature artinfo: ui: 196381877 10.1007/s11469-025-01556-5 ppf: 3269 ppct: 18 formats: tig: atl: Association of Loneliness with Problematic Internet Use Among Adolescents Aged 10 to 16: a Longitudinal Study. aug: au: Fukuya, Yoshifumi Suyama, Satoshi Ogawa, Shiori Yamawaki, Kaori Morisaki, Naho Ishitsuka, Kazue affil: https://ror.org/02hcx7n63 Department of Neuropsychiatry, Toho University Faculty of Medicine, 6-11-1 Omori-Nishi, Ota-Ku, 143-8541, Tokyo, Japan https://ror.org/0419drx70 Center for Child Mental Health and Development, Hokkaido University Hospital, Kita 14, Nishi 5, Kita-Ku, 060-8648, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan https://ror.org/04chrp450 Physical Fitness and Sports, Research Center of Health, Nagoya University, Furo-Cho, Chikusa-Ku, 464-8601, Nagoya, Japan https://ror.org/058s63h23 Department of Pediatrics and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, National Rehabilitation Center for Persons With Disabilities, 1, Namiki 4-Chome, 359-8555, Tokorozawa City, Saitama, Japan https://ror.org/03fvwxc59 Department of Social Medicine, National Center for Child Health and Development, 2-10-1 Okura, 157-8535, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, Japan su: Japan Loneliness Internet addiction Socioeconomic status Mental depression Teenagers Mental health Caregiver-child relationships Longitudinal method sug: subj: Loneliness Internet addiction Socioeconomic status Mental depression Teenagers Mental health Japan Offices of Mental Health Practitioners (except Physicians) Caregiver-child relationships Longitudinal method keyword: Medical and Health Sciences Public Health and Health Services Problematic internet use Medical and Health Sciences Public Health and Health Services Problematic internet use ab: This study aimed to examine the prospective association between loneliness and Problematic Internet Use (PIU) among adolescents aged 10 to 16. This study was conducted using data from the Japan Adolescent and Youth Longitudinal Cohort Study collected in 2022 and 2023. Participants were adolescents in grades 5–10 and their caregivers who were recruited from Japan. A total of 528 participants were eligible and provided consent to participate in both the 2022 and 2023 surveys (follow-up rate: 35.2%). A self-administered questionnaire was mailed to the participants. A modified Poisson regression model was applied to examine the association between loneliness and PIU, adjusting for potential confounders, including socioeconomic status, caregiver-child interaction, caregivers' mental health status, and individual factors such as depressive symptoms and internet use at baseline. The PIU group accounted for 18.7% (n = 98) of the participants in the 2023 survey. After adjusting for these confounders, loneliness was found to be significantly associated with PIU (RR = 1.14; 95% CI [1.05–1.24]). Baseline PIU and depressive symptoms were also significantly associated with subsequent PIU. This study demonstrated that loneliness was prospectively associated with later PIU among adolescents aged 10 to 16. The findings suggest that loneliness may independently increase the risk of developing adolescent PIU. These findings also highlight the importance of school-based and mental health interventions focused on reducing loneliness to mitigate the risk of problematic internet use among adolescents. Further studies are warranted to investigate the causal mechanisms underlying this association. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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