The Impact of Peer Attachment on Left-Behind Children’s Pathological Internet Use: A Moderated Mediating Effect Model
Abstract
:1. Introduction
1.1. Peer Attachment and Pathological Internet Use among Left-Behind Children
1.2. Perceived Personal Rejection as a Mediator
1.3. Emotional Intelligence as a Moderator
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Sampling
2.2. Measures
2.3. Research Process
3. Results
3.1. Common Method Bias Test
3.2. Correlations
3.3. A Moderated Mediating Effect Model
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Sex | Grade | Age | Ethnic | Peer Attachment | Perceived Personal Rejection | Emotional Intelligence | Pathological Internet Use | |
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Sex | 1 | |||||||
Grade | −0.089 | 1 | ||||||
Age | −0.075 | 0.898 ** | 1 | |||||
Ethnic | −0.043 | 0.288 ** | 0.288 ** | 1 | ||||
Peer attachment | 0.057 | 0.145 ** | 0.145 ** | 0.069 | 1 | |||
Perceived personal rejection | −0.117 * | 0.164 ** | 0.164 ** | −0.019 | −0.188 ** | 1 | ||
Emotional intelligence | 0.001 | 0.103 * | 0.103 * | 0.050 | 0.402 ** | −0.261 ** | 1 | |
Pathological Internet use | −0.174 ** | 0.157 ** | 0.157 ** | −0.024 | −0.186 ** | 0.575 ** | −0.171 ** | 1 |
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Zhang D, Wang S. The Impact of Peer Attachment on Left-Behind Children’s Pathological Internet Use: A Moderated Mediating Effect Model. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2021; 18(18):9775. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18189775
Chicago/Turabian StyleZhang, Demei, and Shutao Wang. 2021. "The Impact of Peer Attachment on Left-Behind Children’s Pathological Internet Use: A Moderated Mediating Effect Model" International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 18: 9775. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18189775