Abstract
Adolescent aggression manifests in problematic game use and ultimately undermines life quality. This study deals with the mechanisms behind adolescents’ perception of parenting, maladaptive game use, self-control, and life satisfaction within the context of integrated supportive-positive parenting and harsh-negative parenting. Using 778 valid panel data from the Korea Creative Content Agency (KOCCA), we reached the conclusions that both supportive-positive parenting and harsh-negative parenting, mediated by self-control and maladaptive game use, are major predictors of adolescents’ life satisfaction. PLS-SEM analysis was used for the hypothesized model test. This study helped bridge the gap in existing research by finding clues to recovering parent–child relationships from the side effects of youth game use.
Highlights
Aggression is one of the most serious and pervasive issues that make contemporary life unstable [1]
This study aims to investigate the relationship between children’s coping strategies with supportive-positive parenting (SPP) and harsh-negative parenting (HNP), self-control (SCT) and aggression (AGR) as coping strategies, and maladaptive game use (MAU) and life satisfaction (SAT) by empirically analyzing adolescents’ problematic gaming behaviors
Our hypotheses were statistically supported in our structural model analysis, except for H5 (maladaptive game use (MAU) → life satisfaction (SAT))
Summary
Aggression is one of the most serious and pervasive issues that make contemporary life unstable [1]. In the family, which is the cornerstone of society, aggression or violence in children can threaten the sustainability of social communities. The formation of adolescent aggression is greatly influenced by parenting attitudes during children’s growth period. The parent–child relationship is a major factor in determining adolescents’ life satisfaction [3]. Previous studies note that adolescents’ aggression and life satisfaction are triggered or supplemented by the school environment, peer support, and positive family environment [4,5,6]. Altering parenting behavior can contribute to arresting adolescent aggression [8,9,10,11,12]
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