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13-04-2024 | Empirical Research

Associations Between Internet-Specific Parenting, General Parenting, and Adolescents’ Online Behaviors: A Cross-Lagged Panel Network Analysis

Auteurs: Wei Tong, Wen He, Yuqing Wang, Cheng Xie, Liting Fang, Jichao Jia, Xiaoyi Fang

Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Youth and Adolescence

Abstract

Parents play a crucial role in adolescents’ Internet use. Both general parenting (i.e., autonomy-supportive and controlling parenting) and Internet-specific parenting (i.e., restrictive mediation, active mediation, and parental encouragement) are related to adolescents’ online behaviors. However, existing studies have focused either on an Internet-specific parenting or general parenting strategy and have neglected their interaction, failing to capture the intricate nature of the parenting context of youth’s online behaviors. Few studies have examined parental encouragement or acknowledged the bidirectional influence of parenting on adolescents’ online behaviors. To address this gap, this study employed a cross-lagged panel network model to examine the associations among restrictive and active mediation, parental encouragement, and autonomy-supportive and controlling parenting, as well as the interplay of all five parenting strategies with adolescents’ online behaviors. A total of 564 Chinese students (51.1% male; mean age = 14.54, SD = 0.7) completed the survey at two time points. The results indicate that in most cases, previous online behaviors are significant and strong predictors of subsequent parenting strategies and not vice versa, corroborating the child effect. The parent and reciprocal effects were observed in the problematic smartphone-use domain, suggesting that the effects may differ for distinct behavioral domains. The effects of parental mediation extend beyond parental encouragement, implying that risk-prevention-related parenting is an effective means of guiding adolescents’ online behaviors. Autonomy-relevant general parenting is closely related to active mediation and parental encouragement, while restrictive general parenting is closely related to restrictive mediation, suggesting a consistency between Internet-specific and general parenting strategies.

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Titel: Associations Between Internet-Specific Parenting, General Parenting, and Adolescents’ Online Behaviors: A Cross-Lagged Panel Network Analysis
Auteurs: Wei Tong
Wen He
Yuqing Wang
Cheng Xie
Liting Fang
Jichao Jia
Xiaoyi Fang
Publicatiedatum: 13-04-2024
Uitgeverij: Springer US
Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Youth and Adolescence
Print ISSN: 0047-2891
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-6601
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-024-01981-0

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