Technological Addiction in Adolescents: the Interplay Between Parenting and Psychological Basic Needs
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Technological Addiction in Adolescents: the Interplay Between Parenting and Psychological Basic Needs M. C. Gugliandolo 1
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& S. Costa & D. J. Kuss & F. Cuzzocrea & V. Verrastro
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# Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2019
Abstract Although technological addictions, similar to other behavioural addictions, share psychosocial risk factors with substance-related addictions, the studies on the interplay between contextual and personal variables in the prediction of technological addictions are still limited. For this reason, in accordance with Self-determination Theory (SDT), the aim of this study was to examine the integrated role of parental psychological control and parental autonomy with need satisfaction and need frustration in the understanding of technological addictions (Internet addiction, gaming addiction, smartphone addiction, and social network addiction) in adolescents. Using a sample of 482 adolescents (200 males) with an age range between 14 and 17, path analyses showed that both parental psychological control and need frustration predicted all the technological addictions examined. Furthermore, indirect effects from psychological control to all technological addictions through need frustration were also found. The findings are discussed in line with the SDT. Keywords Psychological control . Autonomy support . Need frustration . Need satisfaction . Technological addictions
Introduction New technologies are changing several aspects of everyday life, and the speed with which they are implemented and integrated makes technology-related impacts an area of particular scientific interest. Numerous studies have shown that new technologies can have very
* M. C. Gugliandolo [email protected]; [email protected]
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Dipartimento di Scienze Mediche e Chirurgiche, Università degli Studi “Magna Graecia”, Catanzaro, Italy
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Dipartimento di Psicologia, Università degli Studi Della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Caserta, Italy
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Department of Psychology, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK
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Dipartimento di Medicina Clinica e Sperimentale, Università degli Studi di Messina, Messina, Italy
International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction
important therapeutic, rehabilitation, educational, and recreational implications (Costa et al. 2014; Griffiths et al. 2017; Krutka et al. 2017; Ritella et al, 2016; Yaden et al. 2018), but other research has indicated that excessive use of technological devices can be risky, especially for some age groups, such as adolescents (Eleuteri et al. 2017; Kuss and Griffiths 2012). In fact, younger generations are increasingly using mobile phones, social media, gaming, and the Internet (Allen et al. 2014; Griffiths 2010), and without adequate regulation skills (Roberts and Pirog 2012), the availability and portability of new devices can make an over-use more likely, possibly with the end result of developing a form of technological addiction (Echeburua and de Corral 2010; Griffiths 1995; Kuss and Billieux 2017). Techn
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