A longitudinal study of the impact of parental loneliness on adolescents' online game addiction: The mediating roles of adolescents’ social skill deficits and loneliness

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Highlights：

• This study investigates the relationship between parental loneliness and adolescents’ online game addiction.

• The mediating roles of adolescents’ social skill deficits and loneliness are also examined.

• Parental loneliness was longitudinally and positively associated with adolescents’ online game addiction.

• Adolescents’ loneliness played a mediating role independently, but social skill deficits did not.

• Adolescents’ social skill deficits and then loneliness also played serially mediating roles.

摘要

•This study investigates the relationship between parental loneliness and adolescents’ online game addiction.•The mediating roles of adolescents’ social skill deficits and loneliness are also examined.•Parental loneliness was longitudinally and positively associated with adolescents’ online game addiction.•Adolescents’ loneliness played a mediating role independently, but social skill deficits did not.•Adolescents’ social skill deficits and then loneliness also played serially mediating roles.

论文关键词：Parental loneliness,Adolescents' social skill deficits,Adolescents' loneliness,Adolescents' online game addiction,Longitudinal study

论文评审过程：Received 6 November 2021, Revised 23 June 2022, Accepted 24 June 2022, Available online 28 June 2022, Version of Record 30 June 2022.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2022.107375