Longitudinal effects of parental phubbing on learning burnout among adolescents: the mediating role of state anxiety and the moderating role of gender
摘要
Parental phubbing describes the behavior that phones are given too much attention by parents and children are snubbed by their parents when parents take care of or communicate with them. Recently, a growing body of study has paid more attention to parental phubbing and its influences on adolescents. Previous research findings have revealed that parental phubbing was correlated to adolescents’ behavioral problems. However, little is known about the link between parental phubbing and adolescents’ learning burnout, and the mechanism of this relationship. Hence, this study investigated the longitudinal impact of parental phubbing on learning burnout among adolescents, and the mediating role of anxiety and the moderating role of gender. A group of 627 (male = 311, female = 316) adolescents from Anhui Province in China were enrolled in the survey using the scale of parental phubbing, the DASS-Anxiety scale, and the adolescent burnout scale in a classroom setting. Convenience sampling was used, and a longitudinal study (3 time points with a 6-month interval) was conducted to test our hypotheses. SPSS 26.0 was used to evaluate reliability, and to calculate descriptive statistics and Pearson correlation. PROCESS version 7 was used to test longitudinal relationships among parental phubbing, anxiety and learning burnout, and construct a moderated mediation model.The findings revealed that T1 parental phubbing generated a positive influence on adolescents’ T3 learning burnout. And T2 anxiety mediated this relationship. Gender moderated the relationship between T1 parental phubbing and T2 anxiety. Specifically, the positive predictive effect of parental phubbing was significant in women but not in men.This study demonstrated that parental phubbing in adolescents longitudinally predicts learning burnout through the mediating role of anxiety and gender moderates the indirect effect from parental phubbing to anxiety. These findings could further the understanding of the link between parental phubbing and adolescents’ learning burnout, and the negative impact of parental phubbing on adolescents, and provide scientific suggestions for preventing and decreasing learning burnout in adolescents.