Journal
CURRENT PSYCHOLOGY
Volume 41, Issue 5, Pages 3013-3020Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s12144-020-00816-y
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Adolescents; Adversity beliefs; PTSSs; Internet addiction
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- General Project for Humanities and Social Sciences Research of the Ministry of Education of China [19YJA190012]
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This study examined the moderating role of adversity beliefs in the association between post-traumatic stress symptoms (PTSSs) and internet addiction (IA) in adolescents over 9.5 years old after the Wenchuan earthquake. The results showed that positive adversity beliefs could buffer the negative effects of PTSSs' negative alterations in mood and cognition symptoms on IA.
This study assessed the moderating role of adversity beliefs in the association between post-traumatic stress symptoms (PTSSs) and internet addiction (IA) in adolescents over 9.5 years old in the period after the Wenchuan earthquake. We recruited a total of 776 middle-school students in the area hit by the earthquake. The students were asked to complete a negative life events scale, the DSM-5 PTSD checklist, the Chinese adversity beliefs scale, and the Chinese internet addiction scale. We found that PTSSs, including intrusive symptoms, negative alterations in mood and cognition symptoms (NAMC), and hyperarousal symptoms but not avoidance symptoms, had positive predictive effects on IA. Positive adversity beliefs had negative predictive effects on IA. A moderating effect analysis showed that positive adversity beliefs could buffer the influence of PTSSs' negative alterations in mood and cognition symptoms on IA. However, positive adversity beliefs were not found to have a buffering role in the relationship between intrusive, avoidance, and hyperarousal PTSS symptoms and IA.
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