PMID- 36713917
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
LR  - 20230202
IS  - 1664-0640 (Print)
IS  - 1664-0640 (Electronic)
IS  - 1664-0640 (Linking)
VI  - 13
DP  - 2022
TI  - Children and adolescents' positive youth development qualities and internet 
      addiction during the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal study in China.
PG  - 1068737
LID - 10.3389/fpsyt.2022.1068737 [doi]
LID - 1068737
AB  - BACKGROUNDS: Recent studies have shown that the qualities of children and 
      adolescents' positive youth development (PYD) enable them to cope with 
      developmental challenges in an adaptive manner and maintain healthy functioning. 
      During the COVID-19 pandemic, there is still a lack of reporting on changes in 
      children and adolescents' PYD qualities and Internet addiction and their 
      relationship. This study investigated the association between PYD qualities and 
      Internet addiction among the children and adolescents who have experienced the 
      COVID-19 lockdown. METHODS: A school-based cohort survey was launched in December 
      2019 (Wave 1, before COVID-19 lockdown) and followed up in June 2020 (Wave 2, 
      after COVID-19 lockdown). The Chinese PYD scale (80 items, scoring 80-480) and 
      Young's Internet addiction test (20 items, scoring 20-100) were used to evaluate 
      the children and adolescents' PYD qualities and the degree of their Internet 
      addiction, respectively. Cross-sectional regressions, longitudinal regressions, 
      and cross-lagged panel model were used to examine the association between PYD 
      qualities and Internet addiction. RESULTS: 7,985 children and adolescents 
      completed both waves of surveys. Compared with children and adolescents before 
      lockdown (Wave 1), their total PYD quality dropped from 4.99 to 4.96 after 
      COVID-19 lockdown (Wave 2), and the mean score for Internet addiction rose from 
      35.56 to 36.16. Cross-sectional analysis showed that after controlling for basic 
      characteristics such as age and gender, the total PYD quality of children and 
      adolescents in two waves was negatively correlated with the degree of Internet 
      addiction during the same period, with beta of -6.10 and -6.95, respectively. 
      Longitudinal analysis showed that after controlling for basic characteristics, 
      children and adolescents' total PYD quality in Wave 1 was negatively correlated 
      with the Wave 2 of Internet addiction and the change between the two waves of 
      Internet addiction, with beta of -3.35 and -0.26, respectively. Cross-lagged panel 
      models showed a negative bilateral relationship between total PYD quality and 
      Internet addiction. CONCLUSION: During the COVID-19 pandemic, the qualities of 
      children and adolescents' PYD declined, which makes children and adolescents more 
      vulnerable to Internet addiction. Therefore, it is necessary to widely implement 
      programs in China that can comprehensively improve the qualities of children and 
      adolescents' positive development to prevent Internet addiction, especially after 
      the blockade due to public health emergencies.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2023 Wang, Hong, Zhang, Su, Li, Zhao and Jia.
FAU - Wang, Zhuo
AU  - Wang Z
AD  - Department of Chronic and Non-communicable Disease Control and Prevention, 
      Sichuan Center of Disease Control and Prevention, Chengdu, China.
FAU - Hong, Binxue
AU  - Hong B
AD  - Department of Health Policy and Management, West China School of Public Health, 
      Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.
FAU - Zhang, Yanyan
AU  - Zhang Y
AD  - Department of Chronic and Non-communicable Disease Control and Prevention, 
      Sichuan Center of Disease Control and Prevention, Chengdu, China.
FAU - Su, Ya
AU  - Su Y
AD  - Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA, 
      United States.
FAU - Li, Minghui
AU  - Li M
AD  - Department of Chronic and Non-communicable Disease Control and Prevention, 
      Sichuan Center of Disease Control and Prevention, Chengdu, China.
FAU - Zhao, Li
AU  - Zhao L
AD  - Department of Health Policy and Management, West China School of Public Health, 
      Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.
AD  - Healthcare Evaluation and Organization Analysis (HEOA) Group, West China School 
      of Public Health and West China Fourth Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 
      China.
AD  - International Institute of Spatial Lifecourse Health (ISLE), Wuhan University, 
      Wuhan, China.
FAU - Jia, Peng
AU  - Jia P
AD  - International Institute of Spatial Lifecourse Health (ISLE), Wuhan University, 
      Wuhan, China.
AD  - School of Resource and Environmental Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20230111
PL  - Switzerland
TA  - Front Psychiatry
JT  - Frontiers in psychiatry
JID - 101545006
PMC - PMC9875032
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - COVID-19
OT  - China
OT  - Internet addiction
OT  - adolescents
OT  - children
OT  - cohort
OT  - positive youth development
COIS- The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any 
      commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential 
      conflict of interest.
EDAT- 2023/01/31 06:00
MHDA- 2023/01/31 06:01
PMCR- 2023/01/11
CRDT- 2023/01/30 04:21
PHST- 2022/10/13 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2022/12/21 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2023/01/30 04:21 [entrez]
PHST- 2023/01/31 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2023/01/31 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2023/01/11 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 10.3389/fpsyt.2022.1068737 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Front Psychiatry. 2023 Jan 11;13:1068737. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2022.1068737. 
      eCollection 2022.