Does adolescents’ Internet addiction trigger depressive symptoms and aggressive behavior, or vice versa? The moderating roles of peer relationships and gender
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Highlights：
• Adolescents' Internet addiction would elevate both depressive symptoms and aggressive behavior over time, but not vice versa.
• Peer relationships played salutary roles in the effects of Internet addiction on internalizing and externalizing problems.
• Higher friend conflict would make addicted adolescents more vulnerable to internalizing and externalizing problems.
• Affiliation with more positive peers or less delinquent peers protected addicted adolescents from aggressive behavior.
• Due to overindulge in the Internet, boys were prone to aggression, whereas girls were prone to depression.
摘要
•Adolescents' Internet addiction would elevate both depressive symptoms and aggressive behavior over time, but not vice versa.•Peer relationships played salutary roles in the effects of Internet addiction on internalizing and externalizing problems.•Higher friend conflict would make addicted adolescents more vulnerable to internalizing and externalizing problems.•Affiliation with more positive peers or less delinquent peers protected addicted adolescents from aggressive behavior.•Due to overindulge in the Internet, boys were prone to aggression, whereas girls were prone to depression.
论文关键词：Internet addiction,Depressive symptoms,Aggressive behavior,Peer relationships,Cross-lagged analysis,Chinese adolescents
论文评审过程：Received 26 December 2020, Revised 5 December 2021, Accepted 8 December 2021, Available online 9 December 2021, Version of Record 20 December 2021.
论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2021.107143
