ArticleFrontiers in psychology2020
Childhood Maltreatment and Mobile Phone Addiction Among Chinese Adolescents: Loneliness as a Mediator and Self-Control as a Moderator.
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- A Pilot Study on the Association of Internet Use with Sports Practice and Sex in Italian Adolescents.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
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- Family functioning and mobile phone addiction in university students: Mediating effect of loneliness and moderating effect of capacity to be alone.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Association of adverse childhood experiences and depression among medical students: the role of family functioning and insomnia.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- The Influence of Childhood Trauma and Family Functioning on Internet Addiction in Adolescents: A Chain-Mediated Model Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
Previous studies have found that childhood maltreatment is an important risk predictor of adolescent mobile phone addiction (MPA). However, little is known about the mediating and moderating mechanisms underlying this association. Grounded in the Basic Psychological Needs Theory and the organism-environment interaction model, this study examined the mediating effect of loneliness and the moderating effect of self-control in the relationship between childhood maltreatment and adolescent MPA. A total of 981 Chinese adolescents (Mage = 13.68 years,
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