AUTHOR=Xiang Guo-Xing , Gan Xiong , Jin Xin , Zhang Yan-Hong , Zhu Cong-Shu 

TITLE=Developmental Assets, Self-Control and Internet Gaming Disorder in Adolescence: Testing a Moderated Mediation Model in a Longitudinal Study

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Public Health

VOLUME=Volume 10 - 2022

YEAR=2022

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/public-health/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2022.808264

DOI=10.3389/fpubh.2022.808264

ISSN=2296-2565

ABSTRACT=Internet gaming disorder (IGD) is gradually becoming an important social problem among worldwide youth and has been included in the eleventh International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11). The present study determined to investigate the relationship of developmental assets, self-control and IGD. A two-wave longitudinal study, with each wave spanning half year apart, was conducted in a sample of 1023 adolescents (aging from 11 to 15, 49.36% boys). Results of moderated mediation model revealed that T1 developmental assets could predict less IGD at T2 directly, or through T1 self-control indirectly. Besides, T1 self-control partly mediated the association in the man group, while it completely mediated the relation in the woman group. The prevention and intervention for adolescent IGD are discussed.