SynthesisFrontiers in psychology2022
The association between parent-child relationship and problematic internet use among English- and Chinese-language studies: A meta-analysis.
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- The Association between Parental Control and Problematic Internet Use among Adolescents: Three-Level Meta-Analysis and Meta-Analytic Structural Equation Modeling.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2026Pooled it
- Parental Technoference and Child Problematic Media Use: Meta-Analysis.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Pooled it
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- The Association Between Mindful Parenting and Children's Peer Social Competence in Chinese Families: A Moderated Mediation Model.Psychology research and behavior management · 2026Article
- Screen Use and Child and Adolescent Health in Canada: Triangulation of Evidence Assessing the State of the Effort.Child: care, health and development · 2026Review
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- Examining the impact of ADHD, pharmacological treatment, and internet addiction on the parent-adolescent relationships quality.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Associations Between Body Image Satisfaction, Body Mass Index, Quality of Life, and Screen Time in Portuguese Students.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Psychological risk factors for problematic social network use: An overview of systematic reviews andAddictive behaviors reports · 2025Review
- The lagged effects of parent-child relationship on internet addiction: parallel mediation of psychological need frustration and self-esteem.BMC public health · 2025Article
- The impact of parent-child interaction and adolescent deviant behavior: the sequential mediation of depression and deviant peer affiliation.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- From stress to screen: family factors on the path to problematic media use in children aged 4-11.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Harsh parenting and preschool children's screen time: the mediating role of parent-child relationships and the moderating effect of mindful parenting.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Associations of excessive internet use, sleep duration and physical activity with school absences: a cross-sectional, population-based study of adolescents in years 8 and 9.Archives of disease in childhood · 2024Article
- Interplay between Children's Electronic Media Use and Prosocial Behavior: The Chain Mediating Role of Parent-Child Closeness and Emotion Regulation.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- 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 association between parents phubbing and prosocial behavior among Chinese preschool children: a moderated mediation model.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Parent-Child Relationships: A Shield Against Maternal Depression in the Midst of Household Chaos.Psychology research and behavior management · 2024Article
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Abstract
As past studies of the association between parent-child relationship and problematic internet use show mixed results and are influenced by many factors, this meta-analysis of 75 primary Chinese and English language studies from 1990 to 2021 with 110,601 participants (aged 6-25 years) explored (a) the overall association between parent-child relationship and problematic internet use, and (b) whether the association is affected by their types, country, measures, objects of the parent-child relationship, gender, age, year and publication types. We used funnel plots,
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