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Front. Psychiatry
Sec. Digital Mental Health
Volume 15 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1470306
This article is part of the Research Topic The Effect of Digital Usage on Mental Health and Adaptation of Adolescents in the Post-Pandemic Era View all 7 articles

Why can parents' phubbing affect mobile phone addiction? Perspective of the I-PACE model

Provisionally accepted
Bo Liu Bo Liu 1Hemuqing Xu Hemuqing Xu 1Hua Wei Hua Wei 2*Yuancai Song Yuancai Song 2
  • 1 Xinyang Normal University, Xinyang, China
  • 2 Qingdao University, Qingdao, Shandong Province, China

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    Objective: Based on the I-PACE model, this study investigated the longitudinal relationship between parents' phubbing and mobile phone addiction, as well as the serial mediating effects of maladaptive cognition and ego depletion.Methods: A longitudinal study, with data collected at two time points over a six-month interval to test the proposed hypotheses. The independent variable was measured at Time 1 (T1), while the mediators and dependent variables were assessed at Time 2 (T2). A total of 591 middle school students from a city in central China was recruited to complete the parents' phubbing scale, maladaptive cognition scale, ego depletion scale and mobile phone addiction scale.(1) The correlation analysis showed a significant positive correlation between T1 parents' phubbing, T2 maladaptive cognition, T2 ego depletion, and T2 mobile phone addiction. (2) Maladaptive cognition was found to mediate the relationship between parent's phubbing and mobile phone addiction. Similarly, ego depletion also mediated the relationship between parent's phubbing and mobile phone addiction. Additionally, both maladaptive cognition and ego depletion functioned as serial mediators between parent's phubbing and mobile phone addiction.This study provides evidence that parental phubbing serves as a longitudinal predictor of mobile phone addiction, with maladaptive cognition and ego depletion acting as key mediators in this process.

    Keywords: parents' phubbing, Mobile phone addiction, Maladaptive cognition, Ego Depletion, Adolescent

    Received: 25 Jul 2024; Accepted: 24 Dec 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Liu, Xu, Wei and Song. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Hua Wei, Qingdao University, Qingdao, 266071, Shandong Province, China

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