ArticleFrontiers in psychiatry2019
Internet Addiction and Depression in Chinese Adolescents: A Moderated Mediation Model.
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- Association between Internet addiction and mental health problems among Chinese adolescents in the post-COVID-19 pandemic era: a propensity score matching study.BMC psychology · 2026Article
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- Parent-adolescent conflict and problematic internet use among Chinese adolescents: the mediating role of depression and the moderating role of school climate.BMC psychology · 2024Article
- Connectome-based predictive modeling of Internet addiction symptomatology.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2024Article
- Do Boys and Girls Display Different Levels of Depression in Response to Mobile Phone Addiction? Examining the Longitudinal Effects of Four Types of Mobile Phone Addiction.Psychology research and behavior management · 2024Article
- Exploring internet addiction and its associated factors among college students in Western Rajasthan, India: A mixed-methods study.Indian journal of psychiatry · 2023Article
- Internet addiction and mental health disorders in high school students in a Peruvian region: a cross-sectional study.BMC psychiatry · 2023Article
- Depression and Internet Gaming Disorder among Chinese Adolescents: A Longitudinal Moderated Mediation Model.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- The effect of mindfulness on social media addiction among Chinese college students: A serial mediation model.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
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Abstract
Research has revealed that Internet addiction is a risk factor for adolescents' development of depressive symptoms, although the underlying mechanisms are largely unknown. The present study examines the mediating role of positive youth development and the moderating role of mindfulness to determine the association between Internet addiction and depression. A sample of 522 Chinese adolescents completed measures related to Internet addiction, positive youth development, mindfulness, depression, and their background information, for which the results reveal that positive youth development mediates the relation between Internet addiction and depression. Moreover, the associations between both Internet addiction and depression as well as positive youth development and depression are moderated by mindfulness. These two effects were stronger for adolescents with low mindfulness than for those with high mindfulness. The present study contributes to a more thorough understanding of how and when Internet addiction increases the risk of depression in adolescents, suggesting that Internet addiction may affect adolescent depression through positive youth development and that mindfulness can alleviate the negative effect of Internet addiction or a low level of psychological resources on depression. The implications for research and practice are finally discussed.
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