Smartphone and social network addiction in early adolescents: The role of self-regulatory self-efficacy in a pilot school-based intervention

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dc.contributor.authorFavini, Ainzara
dc.contributor.authorCulcasi, Flavia
dc.contributor.authorCirimele, Flavia
dc.contributor.authorRemondi, Chiara
dc.contributor.authorPlata, Maryluz Gomez
dc.contributor.authorCaldaroni, Silvia
dc.contributor.authorVirzi, Alessia Teresa
dc.contributor.authorKanacri, Bernadette Paula Luengo
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-20T17:11:37Z
dc.date.available2025-01-20T17:11:37Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.description.abstractBackground: Youths' online problematic behaviors, such as smartphone or social network sites (SNS) addiction, gained increasing attention nowadays, due to their impact on concurrent and later adjustment, such as emotional and/or behavioral problems, academic impairments, or relational issues.Aims: This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of a pilot school-based intervention to contrast online addictive behaviors while fostering adolescents' self-regulative abilities.Materials & Methods: The intervention started in January 2022 in an Italian junior high school located in Rome, and consisted of four meetings with students. A total sample of 462 15-year-old adolescents (M-age = 15.2; SD = 0.50; 41% females; N-control = 214; N-intervention = 248) was considered. Within the latent difference score framework, we examined short-term changes from the pre-to-the-postintervention levels of SNS and smartphone addiction, and self-regulatory self-efficacy (SRSE) beliefs as a possible booster of the intervention's effectiveness.Results: Results showed a significant decrease in both online addictions (SNS and smartphone addiction), controlling for age, gender, sexual orientation, and socioeconomic status, because of the short-term efficacy of the project. The buffering effect of SRSE beliefs was further supported.Conclusion: These findings emphasized the usefulness of promoting youths' self-regulative beliefs to contrast problematic tendencies, according to a Positive Youth Development perspective which focused on resources rather than only on the prevention of negative outcomes for youths' adjustment.
dc.description.funderRoma Capitale
dc.fuente.origenWOS
dc.identifier.doi10.1002/jad.12263
dc.identifier.eissn1095-9254
dc.identifier.issn0140-1971
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1002/jad.12263
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorio.uc.cl/handle/11534/91196
dc.identifier.wosidWOS:001085816600001
dc.issue.numero3
dc.language.isoen
dc.pagina.final565
dc.pagina.inicio551
dc.revistaJournal of adolescence
dc.rightsacceso restringido
dc.subjectadolescents
dc.subjectpreventive school-based intervention
dc.subjectself-regulatory self-efficacy
dc.subjectsmartphone addiction
dc.subjectsocial network addiction
dc.subject.ods03 Good Health and Well-being
dc.subject.odspa03 Salud y bienestar
dc.titleSmartphone and social network addiction in early adolescents: The role of self-regulatory self-efficacy in a pilot school-based intervention
dc.typeartículo
dc.volumen96
sipa.indexWOS
sipa.trazabilidadWOS;2025-01-12
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