ArticleChild and adolescent psychiatry and mental health2024
Emotion dysregulation and psychopathological symptoms in non-clinical adolescents: The mediating role of boredom and social media use.
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- A systematic review of internet addiction in hospitalized adolescents: proposing a hospital-adapted moderated dual mediation model of emotional dysregulation and social compensation.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Pooled it
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- Boredom in Psychiatric Disorders: Another Dimensional Construct?Brain and behavior · 2026Review
- Metacognitive beliefs and academic performance in Chinese middle school students: A moderated mediation model of emotional dysregulation and anxiety.The British journal of educational psychology · 2026Article
- Symptom-level analysis of problematic social media use and its associations with health, well-being, and lifestyle in Lithuanian adolescents: a cross-sectional study.BMC public health · 2026Article
- When social media hurts: a nine-month prospective study on self-blame as a mediator between problematic social media use and suicidal ideation in adolescents.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2026Article
- Emotion-specific regulation components differentially predict profiles of adolescent psychosocial dysfunction.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- The relationship between sport motivation and problematic social networking sites use among adolescents: a study integrating mediation modeling and network analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- From triple-mode network to triple-layered model - novel insights in social cognition.Indian journal of psychiatry · 2025Article
- People are increasingly bored in our digital age.Communications psychology · 2024Review
- Affective Regulation and Trait Anger Personalities: The Buffering Effect of the Companion Animal Bond.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2024Article
- A Longitudinal Study of Loneliness Before the End of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Trajectories, Predictors, and Impact on Chinese Adolescent Mental Health.Psychology research and behavior management · 2024Article
- The relationship between boredom proneness, the behavioral inhibition system, and anxiety in college students: variable-centered and person-centered analytic approaches.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
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Abstract
backgroundEmotion dysregulation, boredom, and problematic social media use are well-known vulnerability factors for psychopathology during adolescence; nevertheless, the interplay between these factors remains underinvestigated in the literature. Therefore, the present cross-sectional study aimed to explore the mediating role of boredom and problematic social media use in the relations between emotion dysregulation and both internalizing and externalizing problems in a non-clinical group of Italian adolescents.
method721 students (64.6% girls; M
resultsPath models showed that emotion dysregulation predicted both internalizing and externalizing problems, as well as boredom and problematic social media use. Importantly, boredom mediated the associations between emotion dysregulation and both psychopathological dimensions, while problematic social media use mediated only the relation with externalizing problems.
conclusionsOur results highlight that the influence of emotion dysregulation on psychopathology can manifest through different paths, leading to specific symptomatology based on interactions between various variables. In particular, boredom seems to be a transdiagnostic factor for psychopathology in adolescence, whereas problematic social media use would be a dimension-specific factor. The practical implications of these findings are discussed.
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