The effect of technoference in parent-child relationships on adolescent smartphone addiction: The role of cognitive factors

Lu Qiao and Qinxue Liu

Children and Youth Services Review, 2020, vol. 118, issue C

Abstract: The widespread application of technology devices creates opportunities to interrupt real-time communications and interactions, which is referred to as “technoference”. This study is aimed at determining whether the interference in parent–child relationships increases the risk of smartphone addiction among adolescents, and at examining the role of cognitive factors in this relationship. A total of 1,354 high school students from Hubei Province of China participated in this study. The participants responded to perceived technoference, attentional control, internal state awareness (ISA), and smartphone addiction. According to the results, the positive association between technology device interference in parent–child relationships and adolescents' smartphone addiction was partially mediated by attentional control. Moreover, the correlation between attentional control and smartphone addiction becomes stronger as the level of ISA increased.

Keywords: Technoference; Smartphone addiction; Attentional control; Internal state awareness; Adolescents (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2020.105340

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