Bidirectional Within-Family Effects of Restrictive Mediation Practices and Adolescents' Problematic Social Media Use.
J Youth Adolesc
; 53(8): 1928-1938, 2024 Aug.
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ABSTRACT
Much remains unknown about whether restrictive mediation is an effective parenting strategy to prevent or reduce problematic social media use among adolescents. Therefore, this study examined bidirectional within-family effects between two restrictive mediation practices (rule-setting and reactive restrictions) and problematic social media use using random-intercept cross-lagged panel modeling. Three-wave survey data collected among Dutch adolescents (T1 N = 1928, Mage = 13.31 years, SD = 0.91, 43.3% girl) with a 1 year-interval were used. Results showed that within-family changes in problematic social media use symptoms predicted subsequent within-family changes in perceived parental restrictive mediation. More specifically, an increase in symptoms predicted a decrease in rule-setting and an increase in reactive restrictions 1 year later. Within-family changes in perceived parental restrictive mediation practices did not predict within-family changes in problematic social media use symptoms, suggesting that the relation is unidirectional. However, concluding that limiting adolescents' Internet use is ineffective to prevent problematic social media use would be premature. Future research should investigate whether it may be an effective parenting strategy for a certain subgroup of adolescents or under certain circumstances.
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Asunto principal:
Relaciones Padres-Hijo
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Conducta del Adolescente
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Responsabilidad Parental
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Medios de Comunicación Sociales
Límite:
Adolescent
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Female
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Humans
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Male
País/Región como asunto:
Europa
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En
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J Youth Adolesc
Año:
2024
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Article
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Países Bajos