The Relationship Between Parental Phubbing and Short‐Form Videos Addiction Among Chinese Adolescents
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“Phubbing” is a new term that is used to define an act of neglecting an individual’s companion/s in a daily social context to focus on that individual’s smartphone. This study explored the relationship between parental phubbing (PP) and adolescent short‐form videos addiction (SFVA), and the mediating role of relative deprivation (RD) and the moderating role of peer communication (PC) in this relationship. A total of 549 high‐school students from Northern China voluntarily participated in the survey. The direct effect indicated that PP was positively related to adolescents’ SFVA. The mediating effect indicated that RD played a mediating role between PP and adolescents’ SFVA. The moderating effect indicated that PC buffered the negative associations of PP/RD with adolescents’ SFVA.
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Existing short video addiction scales have been adapted from other addiction behavior scales and exhibit notable limitations in reliability and validity, particularly when applied to the unique context of short video addiction.
“In summary, while existing short video addiction scales have been adapted from other addiction behavior scales, they exhibit notable limitations in reliability and validity, particularly when applied to the unique context of short video addiction.”
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- Authors
- Wang, H., & Lei, L.
- Affiliations
- Renmin University of China (CN)
- Corresponding author
- Lei, Li
- ORCID
- Venue
- Journal of Research on Adolescence
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2022-03-07
- Volume
- 32
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 1580-1591
- ISSN
- 1050-8392 (ISSN-L)
- 1532-7795
- OpenAlex
- W4221133697
- Cited by
- 73
- References
- 68
- Citations by year
- 2026: 31 · 2025: 15 · 2024: 18 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 4
- FWCI
- 15.10
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Research on Adolescence (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Impact of Technology on Adolescents
- Social Sciences › Education › Child Development and Digital Technology
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology
- Keywords
- parental phubbing, short-form video addiction, adolescents, relative deprivation, peer-to-peer communication, smartphone use, parental neglect, mediation, moderation, Chinese adolescents
- MeSH terms
- Smartphone, East Asian People, Adolescent, Humans, Parents, Peer Group, Behavior, Addictive
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