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Does Life Satisfaction Mediate the Association between Socioeconomic Status and Excessive Internet Use?

Excessive Internet use is becoming a rapidly increasing problem in today’s society. Our aim was to assess the association between socioeconomic status (SES) of the family and excessive Internet use (EIU), and whether life satisfaction mediates this association. We analyzed data from a representative...

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Autores principales: Urbanova, Laura Bitto, Holubcikova, Jana, Madarasova Geckova, Andrea, Reijneveld, Sijmen A., van Dijk, Jitse P.
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Publicado: MDPI 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6843308/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31618889
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16203914
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author Urbanova, Laura Bitto
Holubcikova, Jana
Madarasova Geckova, Andrea
Reijneveld, Sijmen A.
van Dijk, Jitse P.
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description Excessive Internet use is becoming a rapidly increasing problem in today’s society. Our aim was to assess the association between socioeconomic status (SES) of the family and excessive Internet use (EIU), and whether life satisfaction mediates this association. We analyzed data from a representative sample of 2844 Slovak adolescents (mean age 14.34, 50.5% boys) from the 2014 Health Behavior in School aged Children (HBSC) study, based on self-report questionnaires. We assessed the association of SES, measured by several indicators, such as perceived family wealth, parental education, and (un)employment, and adolescent EIU using linear regression, adding life satisfaction as a mediator. Adolescents whose father was unemployed and whose perceived family wealth was low tended to score higher on EIU. Neither gender nor age affected this relationship. Life satisfaction mediated a part of the association between SES and EIU in the case of low perceived family wealth and father’s (un)employment. Adolescents with a low SES are more likely to become excessive Internet users, and life satisfaction mediates this association. Prevention of EIU among adolescents should be targeted at those with low SES, with life satisfaction being the topic to address.
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spelling pubmed-68433082019-11-25 Does Life Satisfaction Mediate the Association between Socioeconomic Status and Excessive Internet Use? Urbanova, Laura Bitto Holubcikova, Jana Madarasova Geckova, Andrea Reijneveld, Sijmen A. van Dijk, Jitse P. Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Excessive Internet use is becoming a rapidly increasing problem in today’s society. Our aim was to assess the association between socioeconomic status (SES) of the family and excessive Internet use (EIU), and whether life satisfaction mediates this association. We analyzed data from a representative sample of 2844 Slovak adolescents (mean age 14.34, 50.5% boys) from the 2014 Health Behavior in School aged Children (HBSC) study, based on self-report questionnaires. We assessed the association of SES, measured by several indicators, such as perceived family wealth, parental education, and (un)employment, and adolescent EIU using linear regression, adding life satisfaction as a mediator. Adolescents whose father was unemployed and whose perceived family wealth was low tended to score higher on EIU. Neither gender nor age affected this relationship. Life satisfaction mediated a part of the association between SES and EIU in the case of low perceived family wealth and father’s (un)employment. Adolescents with a low SES are more likely to become excessive Internet users, and life satisfaction mediates this association. Prevention of EIU among adolescents should be targeted at those with low SES, with life satisfaction being the topic to address. MDPI 2019-10-15 2019-10 /pmc/articles/PMC6843308/ /pubmed/31618889 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16203914 Text en © 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Does Life Satisfaction Mediate the Association between Socioeconomic Status and Excessive Internet Use?
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title_short Does Life Satisfaction Mediate the Association between Socioeconomic Status and Excessive Internet Use?
title_sort does life satisfaction mediate the association between socioeconomic status and excessive internet use?
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6843308/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31618889
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16203914
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