Table 4 Summary of methods and findings for studies exploring the association between parental technoference and adolescent violent behaviours
From: Parental technoference and adolescents’ mental health and violent behaviour: a scoping review
Citation | Study aim | Theory | Key findings |
|---|---|---|---|
Qu et al., 2020 | To examine whether mother phubbing would be positively related to adolescent cyberbullying and if perceived mother acceptance or emotional stability mediates this relationship. | Displacement Hypothesis; Parental Rejection Theory | Mother phubbing was positively related to adolescent cyberbullying, which was mediated by perceived mother acceptance. |
Stockdale et al., 2018 | To examine the direct relationship among adolescents’ perceptions of parent-adolescent technoference and the impact on adolescent depression, anxiety, cyberbullying pro social behaviour and civic engagement. | Attachment Theory | Parental technoference was associated with adolescent technoference which were uniquely related to increased cyberbullying, mediated through parental warmth. |
Wang et al., 2020(b) | To examine whether parental phubbing was significantly related to adolescent cyberbullying perpetration and if moral disengagement mediated this relationship. | Frustration Aggression Theory | Adolescents with a high level of parental phubbing were likely to cyberbully others. Moral disengagement significantly mediated the relationship between parental phubbing and adolescent cyberbullying perpetration. |
Wei et al., 2021 | To investigate the association between parental phubbing and adolescent cyberbullying perpetration and the mediating role of anxiety and Zhong-Yong thinking. | Social Control Theory | Parental phubbing was positively associated with adolescent cyberbullying perpetration and anxiety mediated this association. |
Xie et al., 2019 | To determine if adolescent mobile phone addiction increases after being phubbed by parents and examine effects of the mediating roles of parent child attachment, deviant peer affiliation and moderating role of gender. | Social Control Theory; Informal Social Control Theory | Parental phubbing was positively related to adolescent deviant peer affiliation which mediated adolescent mobile phone addiction. |