TY - JOUR
T1 - Supportive communication with parents moderates the negative effects of electronic media use on life satisfaction during adolescence
AU - Boniel-Nissim, Meyran
AU - Tabak, Izabela
AU - Mazur, Joanna
AU - Borraccino, Alberto
AU - Brooks, Fiona
AU - Gommans, Rob
AU - van der Sluijs, Winfried
AU - Zsiros, Emese
AU - Craig, Wendy
AU - Harel-Fisch, Yossi
AU - Finne, Emily
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014, Swiss School of Public Health.
PY - 2015/2
Y1 - 2015/2
N2 - Objectives: To examine the impact of electronic media (EM) use on teenagers’ life satisfaction (LS) and to assess the potential moderating effect of supportive communication with parents (SCP). Methods: Data were drawn from the cross-national Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) study (2009/2010) in Canada, England, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Israel, The Netherlands, Poland and Scotland. Sample size: 53,973 students aged 11–15 years. Results: More hours per day spent on the computer were associated with lower LS; more EM communication with friends with higher LS. This relationship became negative if EM use reached and exceeded a certain threshold. SCP moderated the effect of EM communication with friends, but not computer use for the total sample. SCP seems to be more important than computer use or EM communication with friends for LS and it seems to buffer negative effects of EM use. Conclusions: Communication with parents seems to buffer the negative effects of EM use on LS during adolescence. Higher computer use was related to lower LS, but “optimal” frequency of EM communication with friends was country specific.
AB - Objectives: To examine the impact of electronic media (EM) use on teenagers’ life satisfaction (LS) and to assess the potential moderating effect of supportive communication with parents (SCP). Methods: Data were drawn from the cross-national Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) study (2009/2010) in Canada, England, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Israel, The Netherlands, Poland and Scotland. Sample size: 53,973 students aged 11–15 years. Results: More hours per day spent on the computer were associated with lower LS; more EM communication with friends with higher LS. This relationship became negative if EM use reached and exceeded a certain threshold. SCP moderated the effect of EM communication with friends, but not computer use for the total sample. SCP seems to be more important than computer use or EM communication with friends for LS and it seems to buffer negative effects of EM use. Conclusions: Communication with parents seems to buffer the negative effects of EM use on LS during adolescence. Higher computer use was related to lower LS, but “optimal” frequency of EM communication with friends was country specific.
KW - Adolescents
KW - Computer use
KW - Cross-national study
KW - Life satisfaction
KW - Supportive communication with parents
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U2 - 10.1007/s00038-014-0636-9
DO - 10.1007/s00038-014-0636-9
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C2 - 25549611
SN - 1661-8556
VL - 60
SP - 189
EP - 198
JO - International Journal of Public Health
JF - International Journal of Public Health
IS - 2
ER -
