Internet addiction among Chinese adolescents The effect of parental behavior and self-control 中国青少年网络成瘾：父母行为与自我控制的影响.pdfVIP

Computers in Human Behavior 41 (2014) 1–7 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Computers in Human Behavior journal homepage: www.elsevi /locate/comphumbeh Research Report Internet addiction among Chinese adolescents: The effect of parental behavior and self-control Caina Li, Jianning Dang, Xiaoling Zhang, Qianqian Zhang, Jingjing Guo ⇑ School of Psychology, Provincial Key Laboratory of Behavior and Cognitive Psychology, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an, Shaanxi Province, China a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: A cross-sectional study of a large, middle-school student sample (N = 966) was presented in this paper Available online 22 September 2014 aiming to examine how parental behavior and self-control influence Internet addiction (IA) among Chi- nese adolescents. Fifty-one adolescents (the top 5% of IA score distribution) were categorized as at high Keywords: risk. Males were more likely addicted to Internet than females. MANOVA demonstrated that, compared Internet addiction with non-IA group, adolescents with IA revealed lower mean score for parental positive support behavior Adolescent and higher for parental negative control behavior and had lower capacity of self-control. SEM analyses Parental behavior revealed that low capacity of self-control had a negative correlation with parents’ positive support and Self-control a positive corr