Psychological Development and Education ›› 2015, Vol. 31 ›› Issue (2): 246-256.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2015.02.15

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School Climate and Pathological Online Game Use among Adolescents: The Moderated Mediation Model

ZHU Jianjun, ZHANG Wei, YU Chengfu, ZHOU Shasha, SUN Guojian, ZHEN Shuangju   

  1. School of Psychology, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631
  • Online:2015-03-15 Published:2015-03-15

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Abstract: The present study investigated the relationship between school climate and adolescents' pathological online game use (POGU), and was to explore the mediating effect of school engagement as well as the moderating effect of father-child/mother-child relationship. The school climate questionnaire, school engagement scale, parent-child relationship questionnaire and pathological online game use questionnaire were administered to 3056 adolescents (M age 16.33, male 1602) from senior high school in XXX province. Results were as follows: (1) school climate could negatively predict adolescents' POGU. (2) school climate influenced adolescents' POGU directly and indirectly through the school engagement. (3) father-child/mother-child relationship moderated the mediated path. Moreover, mother-child relationship moderated the relationship between school climate and school engagement, while father-child relationship moderated the relationship between school engagement and adolescents' POGU. The results showed school engagement played a partial mediation effect in the relationship between school climate and adolescents' POGU. In addition, for individuals with better mother-child relationship,school climate could positively predict school engagement, but for individuals with worse father-child relationship, school engagement had the trend to negatively predict adolescents' POGU.

Key words: school climate, pathological online game use, school engagement, father-child relationship, mother-child relationship

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  • B844
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