Longitudinal relationships between school climate, academic achievement, and gaming disorder symptoms among Chinese adolescents

Nie, Q, Teng, Z, Yang, C, Griffiths, MD ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8880-6524 and Guo, C, 2024. Longitudinal relationships between school climate, academic achievement, and gaming disorder symptoms among Chinese adolescents. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 53 (7), pp. 1646-1665. ISSN 0047-2891

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Abstract

Despite growing concerns regarding the development of gaming disorder symptoms among adolescents, the longitudinal relationship between school factors and gaming disorder symptoms remains far from being fully understood. This two-year longitudinal study examined the relationship between school climate perceptions, academic achievement, and gaming disorder symptoms among three distinct demographic cohorts: preadolescents (n = 1513; 46.9% girls, Mage = 10.64 years, SD = 0.56), early adolescents (n = 1771; 48.3% girls, Mage = 13.54 years, SD = 0.70), and late adolescents (n = 2385; 50.1% girls, Mage = 16.41 years, SD = 0.59). A four-wave study was conducted (six months apart) using random intercept cross-lagged panel models (RI-CLPMs) to separate the within-person (state level) from the between-person (trait level) effects. The results obtained from the RI-CLPMs indicated that fluctuations in school climate perceptions negatively predicted subsequent changes in gaming disorder symptoms among preadolescents at the within-person level, but not among early and late adolescents. Fluctuations relating to gaming disorder symptoms also negatively predicted subsequent changes regarding academic achievement in late adolescents, but not in preadolescents and early adolescents. The effect of school-related factors on gaming disorder symptoms varies across different developmental stages. While preadolescents may represent a particularly susceptible subgroup in terms of being predicted by their school environment, late adolescents appear to be more vulnerable to predictors of gaming disorder symptoms. The current study also discusses the implications of school-wide programs aimed at improving school climate and preventing the development of gaming disorder symptoms during key developmental periods.

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	Journal of Youth and Adolescence
Creators:	Nie, Q., Teng, Z., Yang, C., Griffiths, M.D. and Guo, C.
Publisher:	Springer
Date:	July 2024
Volume:	53
Number:	7
ISSN:	0047-2891
Identifiers:	Number Type 10.1007/s10964-024-01952-5 DOI 1867057 Other
Rights:	© The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2024. This version of the article has been accepted for publication, after peer review and is subject to Springer Nature’s AM terms of use, but is not the Version of Record and does not reflect post-acceptance improvements, or any corrections. The Version of Record is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-024-01952-5
Divisions:	Schools > School of Social Sciences
Record created by:	Melissa Cornwell
Date Added:	28 Feb 2024 10:01
Last Modified:	10 Jun 2024 08:20
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/50969

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