Objectives
Guided by developmental autonomy and gender socialization frameworks, this study examines how age and gender are associated with parental and adolescent technoference and adolescent behavioral outcomes, tests their predictive contribution to technoference controlling for covariates, and assesses their moderating role in the associations between technoference and behavioral outcomes, offering a theoretically grounded perspective on demographic influences on adolescent adjustment.
Methods/Analysis
Data were collected from 450 adolescents (232 girls, 218 boys; aged 11–17 years) across private and public schools. Technoference was assessed with the Technoference Scale, and behavioral outcomes with the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire. Analyses involved correlations, hierarchical regressions (controlling for socioeconomic status and device use), and PROCESS moderation tests for age and gender.
Findings
Age was positively associated with adolescent technoference, while gender exhibited no significant direct effect. Neither age nor gender predicted parental or adolescent technoference after adjusting for covariates. Gender moderated the impact of parental technoference on adolescent technoference and adolescent behavioral outcomes (internalizing, externalizing, prosocial). Age moderated the parental technoference → prosocial behavior link, and gender moderated the associations between adolescent technoference and internalizing and externalizing behaviors.
Novelty
Understanding technoference is challenging due to the differential roles of age and gender in adolescents’ behavioral outcomes. This study offers a novel integrated framework that demonstrates how gender moderates’ associations between parental and adolescent technoference and behavioral outcomes, while age uniquely moderates the parental technoference → prosocial behavior association. Findings advance Developmental Autonomy theory by underscoring age-linked prosocial vulnerability and extend Gender Socialization theory by demonstrating gendered behavioral patterns, providing insights that can inform theory and culturally sensitive interventions.
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