Digital Dependency: How Parenting and Social Intelligence Shape Internet Addiction

Table 2

Moderated multiple regression results for the moderation of social intelligence on the relationship between parenting style and Internet addiction.

Variables	Step 1	Step 2	Step 3	Step 4
Controls
Gender	−0.05	−0.06	−0.09	−0.12
Age	0.01	0.02	0.03	0.03
Whom you live with	−0.05	0.05	0.06	0.08
Main effects
Authoritative PS		−0.04	−0.04	−0.03
Permissive PS		−0.24	−0.24	−0.25
Authoritarian PS		−0.03	−0.04	0.04
Social intelligence			−0.32	−0.33
Interaction effects
Authoritative PS X SI				0.06
Permissive PS X SI				−0.08
Authoritarian PS X SI				0.25
∆R^2	0.003	0.04	0.07	0.09
∆F	0.78	4.41	18.78	5.11

Note. =  (two-tailed), =  (two-tailed); authoritative PS = authoritative parenting style, permissive PS = permissive parenting style, and authoritarian PS = authoritarian parenting style; gender was coded 0 = male, 1 = female; who you live with: 0 = father and mother, 1 = father alone, 2 = mother alone, and 3 = guardian = .