Does Life Satisfaction Mediate the Association between Socioeconomic Status and Excessive Internet Use?

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Result on the web
<a href="https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/16/20/3914/htm" target="_blank" >https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/16/20/3914/htm</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16203914" target="_blank" >10.3390/ijerph16203914</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Does Life Satisfaction Mediate the Association between Socioeconomic Status and Excessive Internet Use?
Original language description
Excessive Internet use is becoming a rapidly increasing problem in today's society. Our aim was to assess the association between socioeconomic status (SES) of the family and excessive Internet use (EIU), and whether life satisfaction mediates this association. We analyzed data from a representative sample of 2844 Slovak adolescents (mean age 14.34, 50.5% boys) from the 2014 Health Behavior in School aged Children (HBSC) study, based on self-report questionnaires. We assessed the association of SES, measured by several indicators, such as perceived family wealth, parental education, and (un)employment, and adolescent EIU using linear regression, adding life satisfaction as a mediator. Adolescents whose father was unemployed and whose perceived family wealth was low tended to score higher on EIU. Neither gender nor age affected this relationship. Life satisfaction mediated a part of the association between SES and EIU in the case of low perceived family wealth and father's (un)employment. Adolescents with a low SES are more likely to become excessive Internet users, and life satisfaction mediates this association. Prevention of EIU among adolescents should be targeted at those with low SES, with life satisfaction being the topic to address.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
30304 - Public and environmental health

Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
ISSN
1661-7827
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
16
Issue of the periodical within the volume
20
Country of publishing house
CH - SWITZERLAND
Number of pages
10
Pages from-to
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UT code for WoS article
000494779100128
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85073475388

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