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The Effect of Parental Demographics on Parental Assessment of Adolescent Internet Addiction

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  • Chiho Ok

    (College of Business Administration, Jeonju University, Jeonju, South Korea)

  • Jisun Lim

    (Barun ICT Research Center, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea)

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This article investigates how adolescent Internet addiction is assessed by parents based on children's Internet use time and parental demographic characteristics. The authors measured children's level of Internet addiction based on Young's scale evaluated by their parents to mitigate the social desirability bias in self-reported surveys when children evaluate themselves. Based on Korean General Social Survey data, which is nationally representative in South Korea, they analyzed 219 individuals and found that as the time of Internet use of children increased, the level of Internet addiction evaluated by parents increased. In addition, this relationship was moderated by parental demographic characteristics such that higher age, lower educational attainment, and higher Internet use time tend to decrease the parental evaluation of their children's Internet addiction. Results suggest that policies and programs related to children's Internet addiction should be focused more on parents from specific demographic groups.

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  • Chiho Ok & Jisun Lim, 2017. "The Effect of Parental Demographics on Parental Assessment of Adolescent Internet Addiction," International Journal of Cyber Behavior, Psychology and Learning (IJCBPL), IGI Global, vol. 7(4), pages 56-67, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:igg:jcbpl0:v:7:y:2017:i:4:p:56-67
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