Parenting attitudes and pathological gaming: multifaceted influences of harsh-negative parenting on adolescent pathological gaming

These findings underscore the critical role and mechanism of parenting attitudes, which may influence adolescents' pathological gaming through impacts on social intelligence and aggression. Adolescents' psychological and social factors can be strongly affected by parents' negative attitudes. In the context of preventing adolescent pathological gaming, more focus on policies or education aimed at parenting attitudes should be considered.