“…Results showed that need frustration mediates the relationship between psychological control and internet addiction, gaming addiction, smartphone addiction, and social network addiction. This is in line with previous studies (Li, et al, 2018), which have shown that both personal and parental variables have a relevant role in the development of technological addictions. Furthermore, it extended need frustration is a crucial mechanism to explain the relations between parental psychological control and maladjustment (Costa, Soenens, at al., 2015;Soenens, & Vansteenkiste, 2010) also in the behavioural addiction context, providing interesting suggestions regarding the motivations for adolescents to use the internet, gaming, smartphones, and social networks as compensatory TECHNOLOGICAL ADDICTION, PARENTING AND BASIC NEEDS 14 tools to escape from the state of need frustration caused by psychologically controlling behaviours of parents, and this may lead to the development of technological addictions.…”