ArticleFrontiers in psychology2026
Digital literacy education and problematic Internet use among adolescents: a quasi-experimental study of digital self-efficacy and delay of gratification as cognitive-regulatory correlates.
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Problematic Internet use (PIU) has become an important concern in adolescent development, yet the psychological correlates through which educational programs may be associated with healthier Internet use remain insufficiently understood. This study examined whether a 6-week multi-component digital literacy and digital wellbeing program was associated with changes in adolescents' PIU, digital self-efficacy (DSE), and delay of gratification (DGI), and whether the post-intervention data were statistically consistent with a theory-informed pathway linking DSE, DGI, and PIU. A two-arm pretest-posttest quasi-experimental design was conducted with 206 adolescents in Hubei Province, China. Participants were allocated to an intervention group (
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