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Abstract
This study aimed to examine how difficulty in emotion regulation mediates the relationship between parental emotional availability and game addiction among Turkish late adolescents. 537 adolescents completed the Lum Emotional Availability of Parents, the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale, Internet Gaming Disorder Short Form, and Sociodemographic Characteristics and Data Form. The results show that difficulty in emotion regulation fully mediates between parental emotional availability scores and adolescents’ game addiction scores. It can be concluded that interventions for the prevention and treatment of game addiction in late adolescents should focus on improving the parents’ emotional support and adolescents’ emotion regulation skills.
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