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Metacognitions and emotional regulation as predictors of problematic Internet use in adolescents
Full text linkObjective: Problematic Internet Use (PIU), broadly conceptualized as an inability to control one’s use of the Internet
leading to negative consequences in daily life, is fast becoming a matter of significant concern in our society, particularly
in adolescents. In the present study we aimed to assess a model in which metacognitions and emotion regulation
independently predicted PIU.
Method: A total of 380 adolescent students from a secondary school in Italy voluntarily participated in the study.
Students completed a set of online self-report scales assessing PIU, metacognitions, and emotion regulation.
Results: Metacognitions, with the exception of cognitive self-consciousness, were positively correlated with PIU.
Moreover, emotion regulation negatively correlated with PIU. The model tested indicated that both metacognitions
and emotion regulation had direct effects (positive and negative respectively) on PIU and that the relationship between
metacognitions and emotion regulation was not significant.
Conclusions: Both metacognitions and emotion regulation appear to be relevant to PIU among adolescents. We
discuss the implications of these findings
Dysfunctional Cognitions in Online Gaming and Internet Gaming Disorder: a Narrative Review and New Classification
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Factorial validity of the Problematic Facebook Use Scale for adolescents and young adults
Full text linkRecent research on problematic Facebook use has highlighted the need to develop a specific theory-driven measure to assess this potential behavioral addiction. The aim of the present study was to examine the factorial validity of the Problematic Facebook Use Scale (PFUS) adapted from Caplan’s Generalized Problematic Internet Scale model. Methods A total of 1,460 Italian adolescents and young adults (aged 14–29 years) participated in the study. Confirmatory factor analyses were performed in order to assess the factorial validity of the scale. Results Results revealed that the factor structure of the PFUS provided a good fit to the data. Furthermore, results of the multiple group analyses supported the invariance of the model across age and gender groups. Discussion and conclusions This study provides evidence supporting the factorial validity of the PFUS. This new scale provides a theory-driven tool to assess problematic use of Facebook among male and female adolescents and young adults
The associations between problematic Facebook use, psychological distress and well-being among adolescents and young adults: A systematic review and meta-analysis
No full textModeling the contribution of personality, social identity and social norms to problematic Facebook use in adolescents
No full textPositive Mental Health as a Predictor of Problematic Internet and Facebook Use in Adolescents and Young Adults
No full textBrowsing problematic social media use in autism spectrum disorder: The role of social anxiety
Full text linkAccessing the Internet is one of the most frequent free-time activities among autistic and non-autistic adolescents. Autistic individuals may experience communicative benefits from using the Internet. However, they may also be at risk of developing Problematic Social Media Use (PSMU). To date, PSMU in autistic adolescents remains underinvestigated, and no research has analyzed the role of emotional correlates. The present study aims to investigate possible differences in terms of PSMU comparing autistic participants to their non-autistic peers, and examine the role of two dimensions of social anxiety (i.e., humiliation/refusal and performance anxiety) as reported by both children and parents in worsening the levels of PSMU. A total of 183 participants (76 on the autism spectrum), aged (8–17 years) participated in the study. Questionnaires on social media use and on social anxiety were administered. Moreover, parents of the participants were asked to complete a questionnaire related to their children's social anxiety. Results showed similar levels of PSMU across the two groups. However, a different pattern of relationships between PSMU and age, and the two dimensions of social anxiety was observed in autistic adolescents as compared to the non-autistic peers, revealing that individual characteristics and specific social anxiety beliefs might be relevant to understanding PSMU in autism. The clinical and preventive implications of these findings are discussed
An integrative model of perseverative thinking
Full text linkPeople spend most of their waking hours detached from external stimuli, remembering the past, foreseeing the future, imagining situations in which they did not attend or that have never existed, or, simply, thinking. Such a process is crucial for mental health. A common feature of many mental disorders is recurrent stress-related thoughts, the so-called ‘perseverative thinking’. In this review, we describe how perseverative thinking represents a dysfunctional self-regulatory strategy that maintains and increases the effects of mental suffering and arises from the maladaptive interplay between discrepancy monitoring, strategy selection, executive regulation, and information representation. We further argue that perseverative thinking can change how the mind represents the world through memory updating, resulting in an increased perceived need for regulation of the external and internal inputs. Lastly, we propose a new integrated model incorporating the different features of perseverative thinking, offering a more unified perspective on psychopathology
Twisted memories : addiction-related engrams are strengthened by desire thinking
Full text linkAssociative learning plays a central role in addiction by reinforcing associations between environmental cues and addiction-related information. Unsupervised learning models posit that memories are adjusted based on how strongly these representations are coactivated during the retrieval process. From a different perspective, clinical models of addiction posit that the escalation and persistence of craving may depend on desire thinking, a thinking style orienting to prefigure information about positive addiction-related experiences. In the present work, we tested the main hypothesis that desire thinking is a key factor in the strengthening of addiction-related associations. A group of adult smoking volunteers (N = 26) engaged in a period of desire thinking before performing an associative learning task in which neutral words (cues) were shown along with images (smoking related vs. neutral context) at different frequencies. Two retrieval tests were administered, one immediately after encoding and the other after 24 h, to test how the recall of associations changed as a function of retention interval. Two control groups, smokers (N = 21) and non-smokers (N = 22), performed a similar procedure, with a neutral imagination task replacing desire thinking. Participants who engaged in desire thinking increased their performance from the first to the second retrieval test only for the most frequent smoking-related associations. Crucially, this selective effect was not observed in the two control groups. These results provide behavioral evidence in support of the idea that desire thinking plays a role in strengthening addiction-related associations. Thus, this thinking process may be considered a target for reconsolidation-based conceptualizations of, and treatments for, addiction
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