Social Isolation, Loneliness, and Mobile Phone Dependence among Adolescents During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Roles of Parent–Child Communication Patterns

During the COVID-19 pandemic, mobile phone dependence (MPD) became a common addictive behavior among adolescents because of social isolation. To understand the underlying mechanisms of the impact of social isolation on MPD, this study examined the mediating role of loneliness and the moderating role of parent-child communication patterns on social isolation and MPD. Six hundred and eighty-three adolescents from a middle school in Huang'gang...