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Article: Digital Technology Use and Adolescent Mental Health Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Roles of Internet Addiction and Digital Competence
Title | Digital Technology Use and Adolescent Mental Health Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Roles of Internet Addiction and Digital Competence |
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Keywords | adolescents COVID-19 digital competence digital technology use Internet addiction mental health |
Issue Date | 29-Sep-2023 |
Publisher | Mary Ann Liebert |
Citation | Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 2023, v. 26, n. 10, p. 739-746 How to Cite? |
Abstract | This study examined whether Internet addiction (IA) and digital competence (DC) mediated the association between digital technology use and mental health problems in adolescents before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, when digital device use increased dramatically. Repeated cross-sectional data from a 3-year cross-cohort study adopting stratified random sampling were analyzed. In 2019, 569 adolescents (female = 312) from 14 secondary schools completed a DC assessment and an online survey on their digital technology use, IA, and mental health. In 2021, 775 adolescents (female = 397) from 11 of those 14 schools completed both instruments. Results showed that adolescents in 2021 spent more time using digital devices, were more digitally competent, and reported more mental health problems than adolescents in 2019. The prevalence of IA was 8 percent in 2019 and 12.4 percent in 2021. In both years, more frequent digital technology use predicted a higher risk of IA, which was associated with more mental health problems (indirect β = 0.08, p < 0.001 for 2019 and β = 0.05, p < 0.001 for 2021). In addition, in 2021, DC was positively associated with digital technology use and negatively with IA, which indirectly related to fewer mental health problems (indirect β = -0.01, p = 0.03). In conclusion, DC is a protective factor alleviating the positive associations of digital technology use and IA with mental health problems in adolescents when the ecological context requires high levels of digital device use. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/337458 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 4.2 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 1.436 |
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dc.contributor.author | Tao, Sisi | - |
dc.contributor.author | Reichert, Frank | - |
dc.contributor.author | Law, Nancy WY | - |
dc.contributor.author | Rao, Nirmala | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2024-03-11T10:21:00Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2024-03-11T10:21:00Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2023-09-29 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 2023, v. 26, n. 10, p. 739-746 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 2152-2715 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/337458 | - |
dc.description.abstract | <p>This study examined whether Internet addiction (IA) and digital competence (DC) mediated the association between digital technology use and mental health problems in adolescents before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, when digital device use increased dramatically. Repeated cross-sectional data from a 3-year cross-cohort study adopting stratified random sampling were analyzed. In 2019, 569 adolescents (female = 312) from 14 secondary schools completed a DC assessment and an online survey on their digital technology use, IA, and mental health. In 2021, 775 adolescents (female = 397) from 11 of those 14 schools completed both instruments. Results showed that adolescents in 2021 spent more time using digital devices, were more digitally competent, and reported more mental health problems than adolescents in 2019. The prevalence of IA was 8 percent in 2019 and 12.4 percent in 2021. In both years, more frequent digital technology use predicted a higher risk of IA, which was associated with more mental health problems (indirect <em>β</em> = 0.08, <em>p</em> < 0.001 for 2019 and <em>β</em> = 0.05, <em>p</em> < 0.001 for 2021). In addition, in 2021, DC was positively associated with digital technology use and negatively with IA, which indirectly related to fewer mental health problems (indirect <em>β</em> = -0.01, <em>p</em> = 0.03). In conclusion, DC is a protective factor alleviating the positive associations of digital technology use and IA with mental health problems in adolescents when the ecological context requires high levels of digital device use.</p> | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | Mary Ann Liebert | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking | - |
dc.subject | adolescents | - |
dc.subject | COVID-19 | - |
dc.subject | digital competence | - |
dc.subject | digital technology use | - |
dc.subject | Internet addiction | - |
dc.subject | mental health | - |
dc.title | Digital Technology Use and Adolescent Mental Health Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Roles of Internet Addiction and Digital Competence | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1089/cyber.2023.0048 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-85174285745 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 26 | - |
dc.identifier.issue | 10 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 739 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 746 | - |
dc.identifier.eissn | 2152-2723 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:001182634900001 | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 2152-2715 | - |