Psychological Development and Education ›› 2025, Vol. 41 ›› Issue (3): 448-456.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2025.03.15

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The Influence of Helicopter Parenting on the Mobile Phone Dependency among College Students: Longitudinal Mediating Effect of Basic Psychological Needs

LING Yu1,2, LI Jiaqi1, HU Xiaojin1, CHEN Yuling1, LI Danyu3   

  1. 1. Department of Psychology, School of Educational Science, Hunan Normal University, Changsha 410081;
    2. Key Laboratory for Cognition and Human Behavior, Hunan Normal University, Changsha 410081;
    3. Institute of Public Administration, Hunan Normal University, Changsha 410081
  • Published:2025-05-20

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Abstract: The study examined the development trend of the basic psychological needs of college students and cellphone dependency through three follow-up studies of 591 freshmen over a period of one year and examined the longitudinal mechanism of the role of basic psychological needs in the development of helicopter parenting and mobile phone dependency. The results showed that: (1) Basic psychological needs of freshmen are linearly decreasing, and mobile phone dependency is linearly increasing; (2) Parental helicopter parenting significantly and positively predicted the level of college students’ mobile phone dependency; (3) Helicopter parenting plays an indirect role through the initial level of basic psychological needs to the initial level and rate of development of dependency on mobile phone. Conclusion: There is a linear decreasing trend of basic psychological needs and a linear increasing trend of mobile phone dependency among freshmen; Helicopter parenting can directly and positively predict the initial level of college students’ mobile phone dependency and can indirectly impact their development of mobile phone dependency through the initial level of basic psychological needs.

Key words: helicopter parenting, mobile phone dependency, basic psychological needs, latent growth models, longitudinal multiple-mediation model

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