Enhancing academic self-efficacy on decreasing adolescents' unmonitored internet usage and depressive mood.

ABSTRACT: Unmonitored internet use and depression are difficulties that adolescents experience. Efforts to promote healthy adolescent development tend to focus on reducing these two risk outcomes. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to examine how three important school-related factors (teachers, peers, and academics) affect adolescents' levels of unmonitored internet use and depression. For this study, a cross-sectional data analysis was conducted. The sample included 9297 students who participated in two waves of the China Education Panel Survey (CEPS). Structural equation modeling (SEM) was performed using LISREL 8.80 to analyze the data. Monte Carlo resampling was then performed using R to confirm the significance of the mediating effects. Teacher criticism and negative peers can increase u

SUBMITTER: Huang S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10767145 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature