The aim of this study was to add knowledge of the longitudinal associations between gaming and emotional closeness between parents and their children. We hypothesized that parent–child emotional closeness was linked to less gaming activity over time and that more gaming activity was linked to less parent–child emotional closeness over time. We also tested the moderating effect of child gender on these anticipated links. This study involved a sample of Swedish adolescents, spanning the developmental years from age 12.5 to 17, and included data from two time points (T1; year 2013 and T2; years 2017/2018) with N = 782 participants (T1 Mage = 12.10, SD = 0.40; 49.6% girls). Utilizing a series of Cross-Lagged Panel Models, we found that emotional closeness to both mother and father predicted less time spent on gaming over time. More time spent on gaming predicted less emotional closeness to mother over time. Additionally, gaming activity among girls was specifically related to less emotional closeness to their father over time. Strengthening parent–child relationships and emotional bonds may be crucial in safeguarding adolescents from developing habits of excessive gaming that could potentially pose problems for their psychosocial development.

这项研究的目的是增加对游戏与父母与孩子之间情感亲密程度之间纵向关联的了解。我们假设，随着时间的推移，亲子情感的亲密程度与游戏活动的减少有关，而随着时间的推移，游戏活动的增加与亲子情感的亲密程度的减少有关。我们还测试了儿童性别对这些预期联系的调节作用。这项研究涉及瑞典青少年样本，跨越 12.5 岁至 17 岁的发育年龄，并包括两个时间点的数据（T1；2013 年和 T2；2017/2018 年），参与者N  = 782 名（T1 M年龄 = 12.10） ，SD  = 0.40；49.6% 是女孩）。利用一系列交叉滞后面板模型，我们发现，随着时间的推移，与父母的情感亲密程度预示着花在游戏上的时间会减少。随着时间的推移，花在游戏上的时间越多，与母亲的情感亲密程度就会越低。此外，随着时间的推移，女孩的游戏活动与她们与父亲的情感亲密程度降低特别相关。加强亲子关系和情感纽带对于防止青少年养成过度游戏的习惯至关重要，过度游戏可能会给他们的心理社会发展带来问题。