Mediation of Parental Aggravation in the Association Between ADHD Severity and Electronic Media Use: A National Survey of Children’s Health Study

Objective: To determine whether the association between ADHD severity and electronic media use was mediated by parental aggravation. Methods: This was a retrospective analysis from the 2016 to 2017 National Survey of Children’s Health (NSCH) involving children ages of 3 to 17 years with parent-reported ADHD (n = 5,930). Path analyses were used to model the relationships between ADHD severity with parental aggravation (PA) as a mediator, and electronic device (ED) and television (TV) use as outcomes, controlling for covariates. Results: Parental aggravation mediated the relationship between ADHD severity and ED use and TV use (indirect effects: β = .02, p