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Parental phubbing and academic burnout in adolescents: the role of social anxiety and self-control

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Jiang, Yuqian, Lin, Lu, Hu, Ronghua·2023·Frontiers in Psychology
DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1157209PMC PMC10232758
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Based on the limited resource model of self-control, we construct a chain mediation model to examine the relationship between parental phubbing and adolescents’ academic burnout, and whether social anxiety and self-control play a mediating role in it. We used 4 questionnaires to investigate parental phubbing, social anxiety, self-control, and adolescents’ academic burnout among 828 high school students in Wuhu and Huangshan City, Anhui Province, China. The findings indicated that: (1) parental phubbing, social anxiety, and self-control all significantly predict adolescents’ academic burnout directly and (2) parental phubbing could indirectly influence adolescents’ academic burnout through three pathways: the separate mediating effect of social anxiety and self-control, and the chain mediating effect on both. The results of this study help parents understand how their phubbing actions affect adolescents’ academic burnout and the mechanism of action.

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  • En la convivencia familiar, los comportamientos de phubbing de los padres aumentaron significativamente, de manera indirecta, los comportamientos de dependencia del teléfono móvil de los adolescentes.

    “En la convivencia familiar, los comportamientos de phubbing de los padres aumentaron significativamente los comportamientos de dependencia del teléfono móvil de los adolescentes de manera indirecta.”

    From Phubbing y redes sociales: Análisis de una muestra de universitarios del Perú: El phubbing (2025) · cites this paper as Jiang et al., 2023

    The Discussion section (page unavailable) says parents’ phone use at home can lead adolescents to perform similar phubbing actions. It does not report a significant indirect increase in adolescents’ mobile-phone dependence; the study’s reported outcome is academic burnout. (LLM, conf=0.82)

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  • En el fenómeno phubbing, los padres prestan atención a sus teléfonos móviles en lugar de las interacciones con sus hijos, perjudicando su relación y contribuyendo a los sentimientos negativos que los estudiantes pueden desarrollar.

    “En el fenómeno phubbing, los padres prestan atención a sus teléfonos móviles en lugar de las interacciones con sus hijos, perjudicando su relación y contribuyendo en los sentimientos negativos que los estudiantes pueden desarrollar”

    From Phubbing y redes sociales: Análisis de una muestra de universitarios del Perú: El phubbing (2025) · cites this paper as Jiang et al., 2023

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Authors
Jiang, Y., Lin, L., & Hu, R.
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Anhui Normal University (CN)
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Hu, Ronghua
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Jiang, Yuqian
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Frontiers in Psychology
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Frontiers Media SA
Published
2023-05-18
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14
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1157209-1157209
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1664-1078 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1157209
PMC
PMC10232758
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W4377104243
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  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Impact of Technology on Adolescents
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Stress and Burnout Research
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Student Stress and Coping
Keywords
parental phubbing, academic burnout, adolescents, social anxiety, self-control, serial mediation, parent-child communication, smartphone distraction

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