Mindful parenting and digital addition in school-aged children: the mediatingrole of executive function and the moderating role of supportive coparenting

Digital addiction has become a widespread phenomenon worldwide. Based on the Interaction of Person-Affect-Cognition-Execution (I-PACE) model, the current study investigated the associations between mindful parenting and digital addiction in school-age children, as well as the mediating role of child individual executive function and the moderating effects of supportive coparenting, which reflect family relationship contexts. Participants consisted of 739 parents of school-age children, with the children aged between 7 and 10 years old (Mean age 8.27 ± 0.99 years old; 49.8% were boys). This study found that that mindful parenting was indirectly associated with children’s digital addiction through the role of children’s executive function. Additionally, mindful parenting interacted with supportive coparenting to influence children’s executive function. The present study can advance our understanding of how mindful parenting can alleviate children’s digital addiction. Limitations and implications of this study are discussed.Keywords: Digital addiction; Mindful parenting; Executive function; Supportive coparenting; Moderated mediation model