title: Supportive communication with parents moderates the negative effects of electronic media use on life satisfaction during adolescence.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To examine the impact of electronic media (EM) use on teenagers' life satisfaction (LS) and to assess the potential moderating effect of supportive communication with parents (SCP).
  
  
  METHODS
  Data were drawn from the cross-national Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) study (2009/2010) in Canada, England, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Israel, The Netherlands, Poland and Scotland. Sample size: 53,973 students aged 11-15 years.
  
  
  RESULTS
  More hours per day spent on the computer were associated with lower LS; more EM communication with friends with higher LS. This relationship became negative if EM use reached and exceeded a certain threshold. SCP moderated the effect of EM communication with friends, but not computer use for the total sample. SCP seems to be more important than computer use or EM communication with friends for LS and it seems to buffer negative effects of EM use.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Communication with parents seems to buffer the negative effects of EM use on LS during adolescence. Higher computer use was related to lower LS, but "optimal" frequency of EM communication with friends was country specific.
authors.affiliation: Department of Counseling and Human Development, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel, meyranbn@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Meyran
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Boniel-Nissim
authors.forename: Izabela
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Tabak
authors.forename: Joanna
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Mazur
authors.forename: Alberto
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Borraccino
authors.forename: Fiona
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Brooks
authors.forename: Rob
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Gommans
authors.forename: Winfried
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: van der Sluijs
authors.forename: Emese
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Zsiros
authors.forename: Wendy
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Craig
authors.forename: Yossi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Harel-Fisch
authors.forename: Emily
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Finne
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior; D000328:Adult; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D002170:Canada; D002648:Child; D003142:Communication; D003201:Computers / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005060:Europe; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D038622:Internationality; D016015:Logistic Models; D008297:Male; D008402:Mass Media / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D016017:Odds Ratio; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010549:Personal Satisfaction; D011788:Quality of Life; D013997:Time Factors