ArticleFrontiers in public health2024
Internet addiction and depressive symptoms in adolescents: joint trajectories and predictors.
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- From family social support to problematic internet use: a serial mediation model of hostility and depression.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- Internet Addiction and Depressive Symptoms in University Students: Latent Profiles, Network Structure, and Symptomatic Pathways to Suicide Risk.Depression and anxiety · 2025Article
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Abstract
Objective: Internet addiction and depressive symptoms are common mental health problems in adolescents. Due to the comorbidity of Internet addiction and depressive symptoms, their mutual relationship influences their developmental trajectories over time. Thus, this study aimed to identify the joint trajectories of Internet addiction and depressive symptoms, and examined the individual, family, and school antecedents of these trajectories among Chinese adolescents. Methods: Using a battery of self-report scales, three waves of data collection were conducted in a Chinese adolescent sample ( Results: Four unique joint trajectory classes were detected: the Health Group ( Conclusion: Our findings illustrate that the joint development of Internet addiction and depressive symptoms among adolescents presents a heterogeneous distribution, which could better inform prevention and intervention strategies since each co-developmental trajectory may represent unique experience for adolescents who need targeted treatment. Various individual, family, and school factors are important predictors that play different roles in distinguishing the joint trajectories of Internet addiction and depressive symptoms during this critical developmental transition period.
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