The Digital Sanctuary: A Comprehensive Literature Review on Chinese Parenting Styles, Attachment Theory, and the Neurobiological Architecture of Adolescent Gaming Addiction
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.61173/0gtksm41Keywords:
Internet Gaming Disorder(IGD), Chinese Parenting(Chiao Shun), Attachment Theory, Neurobiological Mechanism, Self-Determination Theory(SDT)Abstract
The present literature review synthesizes the psychosocial and neurobiological predisposing factors of Internet Gaming Disorder (IGD) in modern China exhaustively. The study tries to balance between the idea of training (chiao shun) parenting and the Western theory of attachment in order to suggest the hypothesis that gaming addiction can be used to balance the lack of needs (need dissatisfaction). Based on the analysis of the 7th International Conference on Behavioral Addictions (ICBA 2022) and S2ORC interdisciplinary datasets, the review traces the shift between the external pressure on parents to internal neurobiological vulnerability. The main argument is that the “digital sanctuary” is a response to the environmental setting, which puts instrumental usefulness above emotional relatedness.