Dispossession in occupied Palestine: Children's focus group reflections on mental health

Abdallah, Ghassan; Barron, Ian; Lala, E.; Oulbeid, Brahim

doi:10.1016/j.ejtd.2021.100236

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“…Females' shyness scores were significantly higher than males' scores. This finding was documented by a number of previous studies examining people's shyness [48][49][50]. In addition, females showed higher scores for internet addiction than males.…”

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confidence: 73%

Parental Psychological Control and Addiction Behaviors in Smartphone and Internet: The Mediating Role of Shyness among Adolescents

Zhang

Ran

Ren

2022

IJERPH

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Parental psychological control has been found to be a vital familial factor that is closely related to adolescents’ addiction behaviors with regard to smartphones and the internet. However, the underlying mechanisms of these associations are less clear. The aim of the present study was to examine whether shyness mediated the relationships between parental psychological control and these two addiction behaviors. A positivist paradigm was used in the present study. The questionnaires (parental psychological control, shyness, and smartphone and internet addiction questionnaires) were used to collect data from a sample of 1857 Chinese adolescents (961 female, 896 male) in junior and senior middle schools. Descriptive statistics as well as correlation and mediation tests were employed to analyze the data. We observed that adolescents with siblings showed a higher level of internet addiction than those with no siblings. Moreover, three dimensions of parental psychological control were positively associated with addiction behaviors. The following analyses displayed that the correlation between authority assertion and smartphone addiction was greater than that between authority assertion and internet addiction. Subsequently, shyness was significantly positively related to parental psychological control and addiction behaviors. Importantly, we found that the relations between the three dimensions of parental psychological control and the addiction behaviors concerning smartphones and the internet were partially mediated by shyness. This study contributes to our understanding of how parental psychological control predicts high levels of adolescents’ addiction behaviors surrounding smartphones and the internet.

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confidence: 73%