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September 10, 2025Behavioral SciencesOpen Access

Psychosocial Risk Factors and Adolescent Problematic Internet Gaming (PIG): The Mediating Roles of Deviant Peer Affiliation and Hedonic Gaming Experience

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YWYi WuHLHuazhen LiZLZhanni Luo

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Overview

Research found that deviant peer affiliation and hedonic gaming experience mediate psychosocial risk factors impacting problematic internet gaming in adolescents.

Key Points

  • Adolescent problematic internet gaming is influenced by several psychosocial risk factors, including interpersonal incompetence and emotional loneliness.
  • All 14 proposed hypotheses were confirmed, revealing significant paths from psychosocial risk factors to deviant peer affiliation and problematic gaming.
  • Structural equation modeling was employed to analyze the relationships and mediation effects of deviant peer affiliation and hedonic gaming experience.
  • Understanding these mechanisms highlights the need for targeted interventions based on distinct developmental pathways in adolescents.

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Wu et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68c243acb210217d647a7c4dhttps://doi.org/10.3390/bs15091177
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