ArticlePsychology research and behavior management2022
The Effect of Parent Phubbing on Chinese Adolescents' Smartphone Addiction During COVID-19 Pandemic: Testing a Moderated Mediation Model.
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- The association between parental phubbing and pathological digital use among children and adolescents: a meta-analysis of Chinese samples.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Pooled it
- Parental Technoference and Child Problematic Media Use: Meta-Analysis.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Pooled it
- Investigation of phubbing behavior in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and cognitive disengagement syndrome: a case-control study in adolescent.BMC psychiatry · 2026Article
- Reciprocal relationship between boredom proneness and problematic social media use among Chinese adolescents: a random intercept cross-lagged panel model.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Social anxiety and smartphone addiction among college students: the mediating role of loneliness.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Mom, dad, put down your phone and talk to me: how parental phubbing influences problematic internet use among adolescents.BMC psychology · 2024Article
- Connections between Parental Phubbing and Electronic Media Use in Young Children: The Mediating Role of Parent-Child Conflict and Moderating Effect of Child Emotion Regulation.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- The effects of self-esteem and parental phubbing on adolescent internet addiction and the moderating role of the classroom environment: a hierarchical linear model analysis.BMC psychiatry · 2024Article
- Maternal Phubbing and Problematic Media Use in Preschoolers: The Independent and Interactive Moderating Role of Children's Negative Affectivity and Effortful Control.Psychology research and behavior management · 2024Article
- Linking adolescents' phubbing to depression: the serial mediating effects of peer relationship quality and psychological need frustration.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Discrepancies in Adolescent-Parent Perceptions of Parental Phubbing and Their Relevance to Adolescent Smartphone Dependence: The Mediating Role of Parent-Child Relationship.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- How Mothers' Problematic Smartphone Use Affects Adolescents' Problematic Smartphone Use: Mediating Roles of Time Mothers Spend with Adolescents and Adolescents' Self-Esteem.Psychology research and behavior management · 2023Article
- Why Cannot I Stop Phubbing? Boredom Proneness and Phubbing: A Multiple Mediation Model.Psychology research and behavior management · 2023Article
- The relationship between parental phubbing and mobile phone addiction in junior high school students: A moderated mediation model.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- The Relationship of Technoference in Conjugal Interactions and Child Smartphone Dependence: The Chain Mediation between Marital Conflict and Coparenting.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Parental Efficacy in Managing Smartphone Use of Adolescents with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: Parental and Adolescent Related Factors.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Effects of Stressors of COVID-19 on Chinese College Students' Problematic Social Media Use: A Mediated Moderation Model.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- Smartphone addiction risk, technology-related behaviors and attitudes, and psychological well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Review
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Abstract
Purpose: COVID-19 has affected the health and well-being of tens of millions of people and contributed to smartphone addiction. The prior studies found several characteristics that influenced smartphone addiction, but little research was undertaken on the epidemic. This study aims to test a moderated mediation model of smartphone addiction. Methods: Three classes in each grade from grade 7 through grade 9 at random were recruited in the target junior high schools. A total of 931 Chinese adolescents ( Results: Parent phubbing had a positive effect on smartphone addiction. Boredom proneness played a mediating role in this relationship. Additionally, refusal self-efficacy moderated the effect of parent phubbing on smartphone addiction. Refusal self-efficacy moderated the effect of boredom proneness on smartphone addiction. Conclusion: Findings of this study shed light on a correlation between parent phubbing and smartphone addiction. Moreover, this study emphasizes the value of intervening in adolescents' boredom proneness and increasing the ability of refusal self-efficacy to prevent and intervene in the context of COVID-19.
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