The last decades have seen growing attention for the positive and negative effects of digital technology on adolescent's wellbeing. Large individual variability in these effects is likely caused by individual differences in the way people interact with digital devices. Digital maturity aims to capture the extent to which young individuals use digital technology in a healthy and adaptive way. The recently developed Digital Maturity Inventory (DIMI) uses self-report to measure ten domains, from digital literacy to emotion regulation, that constitute digital maturity of adolescents. To better understand the relative contribution and interplay of the different domains in the development of digital maturity, we employed a moderated psychometric network model. We measured digital maturity scores of 378 participants, aged 9–43 years. The results revealed that support-seeking and the regulation of aggressive impulses are central domains within the network, indicating important starting points for intervention studies. Although age did not moderate the connections within the network, we did find that older participants were more digitally literate and asked less often for support regarding digital issues. These results suggest that digital maturity is a relatively robust concept across adolescence and into adulthood and provide important footholds for interventions.

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数字化成熟度发展结构

过去几十年来，人们越来越关注数字技术对青少年福祉的积极和消极影响。这些影响的巨大个体差异可能是由于人们与数字设备交互方式的个体差异造成的。数字成熟度旨在了解年轻人以健康和适应性方式使用数字技术的程度。最近开发的数字成熟度调查表（DIMI）使用自我报告来衡量构成青少年数字成熟度的十个领域，从数字素养到情绪调节。为了更好地理解不同领域在数字成熟度发展中的相对贡献和相互作用，我们采用了有调节的心理测量网络模型。我们测量了 378 名年龄在 9 至 43 岁之间的参与者的数字化成熟度得分。结果表明，寻求支持和调节攻击性冲动是网络内的中心领域，这表明干预研究的重要起点。尽管年龄并不能调节网络内的联系，但我们确实发现年长的参与者具有更高的数字素养，并且很少要求有关数字问题的支持。这些结果表明，数字成熟度是一个横跨青春期和成年期的相对稳健的概念，并为干预措施提供了重要的立足点。