Examining the effect of digital parenting attitudes on digital game addiction.
Handan Kabadayı, Aslıhan Öztürk Eyimaya
PMID 40736281WHAT IT FOUND
No relationship was found between digital parenting attitude scores and students’ digital game addiction scores.
Still, 14.4% were addicted, 2.6% highly addicted, and 54.9% at risk on a 24 to 120 scale.
Key findings
01No relationship was found between digital parenting attitude scores and students’ digital game addiction scores.
02Among the students, 14.4% were addicted, 2.6% were highly addicted, and 54.9% were in the at-risk group.
03The mean total digital game addiction score was 59.42 on a scale from 24 to 120.
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What it does not show
The study was cross-sectional, so it cannot show that digital parenting attitudes cause or prevent digital game addiction. It included 306 students and 306 parents from a public middle school in Ankara, so the results may not apply to other schools, ages, or countries. Risk was measured with self-report questionnaires, not by clinical evaluation, so individual children cannot be diagnosed from these scores. Several subgroup differences were reported, but the main relationship between parenting attitudes and addiction was null.
The easy way to misread this
Do not conclude that digital parenting attitudes do not matter for children’s game addiction. The study found no significant relationship between the measured attitude scores and addiction scores, but it was cross-sectional, used a single school and self-report scales, and cannot show cause or rule out other parenting factors.