The influence of adolescents' internet adaptation on internet addiction: the mediating role of internet cultural adaptation.

ABSTRACT: This study investigates how adolescents' internet adaptation influences internet addiction, with a particular focus on the mediating role of internet cultural adaptation. Grounded in cross-cultural adaptation theory, the study proposes that internet cultural adaptation can mitigate the negative relationship between internet adaptation and internet addiction. Conducting a large-scale random survey among Chinese adolescents, and employing standardized measures for internet addiction, internet cultural adaptation, and internet adaptation, the study finds a significant negative correlation between internet adaptation and internet addiction. More crucially, internet cultural adaptation plays a pivotal mediating role, such that when adolescents have higher capabilities in adapting culturally to

SUBMITTER: Yang Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10800847 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature