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However, their reciprocity has not been empirically tested.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Objective<\/jats:title>\n This study investigated the reciprocal relationships among gaming time, impulsivity, self-control, and IGD simultaneously within a single cross-lagged panel model among Chinese adolescents, hypothesizing that all 4 variables would be prospectively associated with each other.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Methods<\/jats:title>\n This 1-year, 2-wave prospective longitudinal cohort (observational) study recruited grade 7 and grade 8 students from a convenience sample of 6 junior high schools in Chengdu and Guangzhou, China. Students completed an identical self-administered questionnaire in classrooms (using paper and pencil, without teachers present) in December 2018 (wave 1 [W1]) and December 2019 (wave 2 [W2]). Impulsivity, self-control, gaming time, and IGD were assessed using validated scales. The 2238 students (mean age 12.60, SD 0.63 years, 95% CI 12.58\u201012.63; male: n=1102, 49.24%, 95% CI 47.27%\u201051.21%) who completed the W1 survey were included in the final data analysis, with multiple imputations addressing missing data from dropouts and unmatched assessments across the 2 study waves.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Results<\/jats:title>\n \n Adjusting for background characteristics, autoregressive correlations, and concurrent correlations, the cross-lagged panel model showed that (1) the prospective association between gaming time at W1 and IGD at W2 was statistically nonsignificant (\u03b2=0.02, 95% CI \u22120.04 to 0.08), but IGD at W1 was prospectively and positively associated with gaming time at W2 (\u03b2=0.08, 95% CI 0.01\u20100.16;\n P<\/jats:italic>\n =.02); (2) self-control at W1 was prospectively and negatively associated with both gaming time at W2 (\u03b2=\u22120.13, 95% CI \u22120.19 to \u22120.07;\n P<\/jats:italic>\n <.001) and IGD at W2 (\u03b2=\u22120.11, 95% CI \u22120.17 to \u22120.05;\n P<\/jats:italic>\n <.001), and IGD at W1 was prospectively and negatively associated with self-control at W2 (\u03b2=\u22120.09, 95% CI \u22120.15 to \u22120.03;\n P<\/jats:italic>\n <.001), but gaming time at W1 was not associated with self-control at W2 (\u03b2=0.04, 95% CI \u22120.01 to 0.09); and (3) the prospective associations between impulsivity at W1 and IGD at W2 (\u03b2=0.03, 95% CI \u22120.03 to 0.09) and between impulsivity at W1 and gaming time at W2 (\u03b2=\u22120.04, 95% CI \u22120.10 to 0.03) were statistically nonsignificant; reciprocally, neither IGD at W1 (\u03b2=0.05, 95% CI \u22120.01 to 0.11) nor gaming time at W1 (\u03b2=\u22120.01, 95% CI \u22120.07 to 0.05) was prospectively associated with impulsivity at W2.\n <\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n This prospective longitudinal cohort study is the first to disentangle the reciprocal prospective associations among gaming time, impulsivity, self-control, and IGD simultaneously within a single cross-lagged panel model. Unlike prior studies, which examined these variables separately and largely cross-sectionally, this design clarified their bidirectionality and relative longitudinal importance. The findings revealed novel differential associations among the 4 variables, findings that promise to reorient the field from gaming time toward the cognitive and motivational processes regulating gaming behaviors. 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