| Literature DB >> 24003966 |
Mike Z Yao1, Jing He, Deborah M Ko, Kaichung Pang.
Abstract
A survey of 2,095 college students in five major cities in China was conducted to examine the influence of personality, parental behaviors, and self-esteem on Internet addiction. We found that psychoticism and neuroticism were both positively related to Internet addiction. The influence of parental behaviors on Internet addition was also significant. However, fathers' and mothers' behaviors had different impacts on their children's likelihood of being addicted to the Internet. Specifically, we found that fathers' rejection and overprotection, and mothers' rejection would increase the risk for Internet addiction. Furthermore, the influence of emotional warmth from parents on Internet addiction was partially mediated by self-esteem. Finally, we found that parental behaviors of mothers and fathers affected males and females differently in terms the risk of being addicted to the Internet.Entities:
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Year: 2013 PMID： 24003966 PMCID： PMC3924803 DOI： 10.1089/cyber.2012.0710
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Cyberpsychol Behav Soc Netw ISSN： 2152-2715