Psychological Development and Education ›› 2022, Vol. 38 ›› Issue (4): 546-555.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2022.04.11

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Negative Representations of Family and Internet Relationship Addiction:The Mediating Role of Need to Belong and Social Sensitivity

LIU Qinxue1,2, ZHANG Lingling1,2,3, LIN Yue1,2, DING Zien1,2   

  1. 1. Key Laboratory of Human Development and Mental Health of Hubei Province, Key Laboratory of Adolescent Cyberpsychology and Behavior(CCNU), Ministry of Education, Wuhan 430079;
    2. National Experimental Teaching Demonstrating Center of Psychology, School of Psychology, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079;
    3. MOE Key Laboratory of Modern Teaching Technology, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an 710062
  • Published:2022-07-13

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Abstract: Based on the Emotional Insecurity Theory,the present study investigated the relationship between negative representation of family and adolescent Internet Relationship Addiction,and the chained mediating effect of need to belong and social sensitivity. A sample of 4476 adolescents from two middles schools in Hubei Province completed the questionnaire included the Negative Representation of Family Subscale,Need to Belong Scale,Social sensitivity scale and Internet Relationship Addiction Subscale. The results revealed that:(1)Negative representation of family positively predicted adolescent Internet relationship addiction;(2)Need to belong and social sensitivity mediated the relationship between negative representation of family and Internet relationship addiction parallelly,and(3)Need to belong and social sensitivity also mediated the relationship between negative representation of family and Internet relationship addiction sequentially. Implications and limitations were also discussed.

Key words: adolescents, negative representation of family, need to belong, social sensitivity, internet relationship addiction

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