ArticleFrontiers in psychology2025
Parenting styles and internet addiction in college students: self-esteem and self-control as mediators.
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- Parenting styles and freshman's internet gaming disorder: a moderated chain mediation model involving presence of meaning in life and self-control.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
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Objectives: This study aimed to explore the effect of parental rearing styles on internet addiction among college students, specifically assessing the mediating roles of self-esteem and self-control in the influencing path. Methods: A cross-sectional questionnaire survey was conducted among college students in a city in eastern China in 2022. Chained mediation effect tests, employing Model 6 of PROCESS with SPSS (27.0), were utilized to statistically analyze the pathways of factors such as parenting styles, self-esteem, and self-control that influence Internet addiction. Results: Positive parenting styles served as protective factors against internet addiction, whereas negative parenting styles constituted potential risk factors. Self-esteem and self-control fully mediated the association between positive parenting styles and internet addiction. Conversely, they partially mediated the relationship between negative parenting styles and internet addiction. Conclusion: Interventions should attach importance to improving positive parenting styles and reducing negative parenting styles, and aim to cultivate self-esteem and strengthen self-control, which are essential to effectively address internet addiction in college students.
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