BRIEF RESEARCH REPORT article
Front. Psychol.
Sec. Addictive Behaviors
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1635463
The longitudinal associations between Filial Piety Belief and Mobile Phone Addiction: From the Perspective of Self Determination Theory
Provisionally accepted
- 1Department of Psychology, School of Education Science,, Qingdao University, Qingdao, China
- 2Normal College, Qingdao University, Qingdao, China
- 3School of Education Science, Xinyang Normal University, Xinyang, China
- 4School of Education Science, Qingdao University, Qingdao, China
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Based on the dual filial piety model, this study aims to examine the impact of filial piety beliefs on mobile phone addiction. Drawing on self-determination theory, it explores the mediating effect of basic need satisfaction and tests the moderating effect of ego-depletion. Through a 6-month longitudinal study, a total of 1468 adolescents completed the questionnaires, which included the dual filial piety scale, basic need satisfaction scale, ego-depletion scale, and mobile phone addiction scale. The results showed that reciprocal filial piety belief has a negative impact on mobile phone addiction, while authoritarian filial piety belief has no significant effect on mobile phone addiction. In addition, reciprocal filial piety belief influences mobile phone addiction through the mediating effect of basic needs satisfaction. Reciprocal filial piety belief enhances basic needs satisfaction, which in turn decreases the likelihood of developing mobile phone addiction. Moreover, the effect of basic need satisfaction on mobile phone addiction is moderated by ego-depletion. Specifically, for adolescents with low levels of ego-depletion, basic need satisfaction can reduce mobile phone addiction. In contrast, for adolescents with high levels of ego-depletion, basic need satisfaction has no significant effect on mobile phone addiction.
Keywords: filial piety beliefs, Basic needs satisfaction, ego-depletion, mobile phoneaddiction, self-determination theory
Received: 30 May 2025; Accepted: 25 Aug 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Wei, Tang, Xu, Shi, Wu and Song. 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: Juan Shi, Normal College, Qingdao University, Qingdao, China
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