ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Psychiatry
Sec. Adolescent and Young Adult Psychiatry
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2025.1601607
The Relationship Between Mother/Father Phubbing and Non-suic idal Self-injury In Adolescents: A moderated mediation model of rumination and school connectedness
Provisionally accepted
- 1Department of Maternal and Child Health, Xiangya School of Public Health, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan Province, China
- 2Hunan University of Finance and Economics, Changsha, Hunan, China
- 3Xiamen Fifth Hospital, Xiamen, Fujian Province, China
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Background: Parental phubbing has been shown to be associated with adolescents' self-harm. However, the differential effects of mother/father phubbing on adolescents' NSSI have been overlooked, and much less is known about the mechanisms underlying this relationship.Objective: The present study explored the relationship between father phubbing (Fphubbing) and mother phubbing (Mphubbing) and adolescents' NSSI. Moreover, it examined whether adolescents' rumination mediates these associations and the moderating role of school connectedness.A total of 2589 participants were recruited as the final sample.The PROCESS macro for SPSS was used to assess the effects of Fphubbing and Mphubbing on adolescents' NSSI. Model 4 was applied to examine the mediating role of adolescents' rumination in the link of Fphubbing/Mphubbing with NSSI. Model 15 was employed to estimate whether the paths of the mediation model were different across school connectedness levels.Results: Fphubbing and Mphubbing were positively correlated with NSSI, and rumination partially mediated these relationships. Moderated mediation analysis further indicated that the relationship between rumination and NSSI was moderated by school connectedness, and this relationship was only significant for adolescents with low school connectedness. The relationship between Mphubbing and NSSI was also moderated by school connectedness, and this relationship is also significant for adolescents with low school connectedness.Conclusions: These findings contribute to understanding the impact of parental phubbing on adolescents' NSSI and suggest that adolescents who are at low school connectedness levels are more likely to report NSSI in the context of rumination.
Keywords: Chen-xi Lin2 †, Xiao-qun Liu2 †, Zai-hua Qing3, Chu-han Yan2, Shi-jiao Tang2, parental phubbing, Non-suicidal self-injury, rumination
Received: 01 Apr 2025; Accepted: 01 Aug 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Lin, Liu, Qing, Yan, Tang and Lu. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Dali Lu, Xiamen Fifth Hospital, Xiamen, 361101, Fujian Province, China
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