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Emotional dysregulation predicts problematic gaming in children and youths: a cross-sectional and longitudinal approach

Adolescents show a high vulnerability for addictive gaming patterns on the one hand and immature emotion regulation (ER) abilities as a risk factor for mental disorders on the other hand. We investigated the predictive value of ER difficulties on problematic gaming (PG) considering age groups (child...

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Autores principales: Schettler, Leonie Marie, Thomasius, Rainer, Paschke, Kerstin
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10023309/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36932230
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00787-023-02184-x
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description Adolescents show a high vulnerability for addictive gaming patterns on the one hand and immature emotion regulation (ER) abilities as a risk factor for mental disorders on the other hand. We investigated the predictive value of ER difficulties on problematic gaming (PG) considering age groups (children vs. youths) and gender cross-sectionally and prospectively in a representative sample of German adolescents via online survey with two measurement points 14 months apart. General Poisson, logistic, and multinomial regression models were estimated to predict gaming patterns by ER difficulties controlling for age group and gender. Results revealed ER difficulties to be significantly associated with PG. Moreover, subgroup analyses indicated differing ER patterns for children vs. youths and boys vs. girls: for children, higher PG values were associated with emotional awareness and emotional clarity whereas for youths it was the acceptance of emotional responses. Moreover, gender differences implicated that boys with PG had more deficits in goal-oriented behavior as well as emotional awareness while affected girls were lacking emotional clarity and had problems with the acceptance of their emotional responses. Interestingly, procrastination was a significant predictor for PG irrespective of subgroups. Furthermore, longitudinal analyses indicated that difficulties in ER promoted PG while stronger procrastination tendencies maintained it. With the inclusion of procrastination, which can be understood as a maladaptive ER strategy, a broader picture of ER difficulties as a risk factor for PG could be drawn. The findings support a better understanding of PG etiology and the development of targeted prevention and intervention measures.
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spelling pubmed-100233092023-03-21 Emotional dysregulation predicts problematic gaming in children and youths: a cross-sectional and longitudinal approach Schettler, Leonie Marie Thomasius, Rainer Paschke, Kerstin Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry Original Contribution Adolescents show a high vulnerability for addictive gaming patterns on the one hand and immature emotion regulation (ER) abilities as a risk factor for mental disorders on the other hand. We investigated the predictive value of ER difficulties on problematic gaming (PG) considering age groups (children vs. youths) and gender cross-sectionally and prospectively in a representative sample of German adolescents via online survey with two measurement points 14 months apart. General Poisson, logistic, and multinomial regression models were estimated to predict gaming patterns by ER difficulties controlling for age group and gender. Results revealed ER difficulties to be significantly associated with PG. Moreover, subgroup analyses indicated differing ER patterns for children vs. youths and boys vs. girls: for children, higher PG values were associated with emotional awareness and emotional clarity whereas for youths it was the acceptance of emotional responses. Moreover, gender differences implicated that boys with PG had more deficits in goal-oriented behavior as well as emotional awareness while affected girls were lacking emotional clarity and had problems with the acceptance of their emotional responses. Interestingly, procrastination was a significant predictor for PG irrespective of subgroups. Furthermore, longitudinal analyses indicated that difficulties in ER promoted PG while stronger procrastination tendencies maintained it. With the inclusion of procrastination, which can be understood as a maladaptive ER strategy, a broader picture of ER difficulties as a risk factor for PG could be drawn. The findings support a better understanding of PG etiology and the development of targeted prevention and intervention measures. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2023-03-18 /pmc/articles/PMC10023309/ /pubmed/36932230 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00787-023-02184-x Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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Emotional dysregulation predicts problematic gaming in children and youths: a cross-sectional and longitudinal approach
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title_full Emotional dysregulation predicts problematic gaming in children and youths: a cross-sectional and longitudinal approach
title_fullStr Emotional dysregulation predicts problematic gaming in children and youths: a cross-sectional and longitudinal approach
title_full_unstemmed Emotional dysregulation predicts problematic gaming in children and youths: a cross-sectional and longitudinal approach
title_short Emotional dysregulation predicts problematic gaming in children and youths: a cross-sectional and longitudinal approach
title_sort emotional dysregulation predicts problematic gaming in children and youths: a cross-sectional and longitudinal approach
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10023309/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36932230
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00787-023-02184-x
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