CoChat
Sign Up
Cited by 58Impact of Technology on AdolescentsChild and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional DevelopmentSubstance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes

Uncovering the Link between Self-control, Age, and Psychological Maladjustment among Spanish Adolescents and Young Adults

Open access
Oliva, Alfredo, Antolín-Suárez, Lucía, Rodríguez-Meirinhos, Ana·2019·Psychosocial Intervention
DOI 10.5093/pi2019a1
Open this paper in CoChat — free accountOpen PDF

Abstract

This study explores the relationships of self-control with age and psychological maladjustment in adolescents and young adults. The sample consisted of 1,600 randomly selected Spanish adolescents and young adults, aged 12-34 years (M = 22.28, SD = 6.94). Measures of self-control, Internet addiction, and anxiety-depressive symptoms were administered. Control variables included age and sex. Results indicated that adolescents between 15 and 19 years old showed the lowest self-control scores, while older participants showed greater scores. Low scores in self-control were significantly associated with greater substance consumption, more anxiety-depression symptoms, and higher scores on the Internet addiction scale. Also, participants with high scores on the addiction scale scored lower on self-control. These results evidence associations between self-control and some emotional-behavioral problems, and suggest the importance of promoting self-control to prevent Internet addiction, substance consumption, and anxiety-depression in adolescents and young adults.

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.5093/pi2019a1

Cites

50 of 50 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Claims the paper makes

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

  • The study's findings align with other research, particularly studies on Spanish youth, where over 23% of adolescents reported using the Internet for more than three hours daily.

    “This finding aligns with other research, particularly studies on Spanish youth, where over 23% of adolescents reported using the Internet for more than three hours daily [45].”

    From Grooming Risk Factors in Adolescents with Abuse Histories: Insights from Chilean Reparative Programs (2025) · cites this paper as [45]

    The 'Self-control as a Protective Factor for Internet Addiction' section reports that 371 participants used the Internet for more than three hours per day; the Methods section gives a total sample of 1,600, making that just over 23%. However, the sample spans ages 12–34, so the paper does not establish that over 23% of adolescents specifically reported this use. (LLM, conf=0.90)

    Experimental — accuracy not yet measured

Self-check

Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.

The self-check needs the paper’s full text.

Cites

Flagged first, then by citations

Research works printed but not linked: 1

  1. Muthén, L. K., & Muthén, B. O. (1998-2012). Mplus user's guide (7th Ed.). Los Angeles, CA: Muthén & Muthén.

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Related

Authors
Oliva, A., Antolín-Suárez, L., & Rodríguez-Meirinhos, A.
Venue
Psychosocial Intervention
Publisher
Colegio Oficial de Psicologos de Madrid
Published
2019-03-05
Volume
28
Issue
1
Pages
49-55
ISSN
  • 1132-0559 (ISSN-L)
  • 2173-4712
DOI
10.5093/pi2019a1
OpenAlex
W2909209048
Cited by
58
References
50
Citations by year
2026: 2 · 2025: 9 · 2024: 8 · 2023: 14 · 2022: 11 · 2021: 8 · 2020: 6
FWCI
12.59
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
cc-by-nc-nd
Locations
  • Psychosocial Intervention (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
  • LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas) (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion)
  • Deposito de Investigacion Universidad de Sevilla (University of Seville) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
  • Redalyc (Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (PSI 2015-64211-R)
  • Socialdepartementet
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Impact of Technology on Adolescents
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
Keywords
self-control, age differences, psychological maladjustment, adolescents, young adults, internet addiction, substance use, anxiety and depressive symptoms, emotional and behavioral problems

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review