The Effect Of Left-at-home Adolescents’Social Relation Network And Internet Use On Their Social Creativity

Social creativity is a special sort of creativity in social interaction or social activities where a person proposes or solves social problems in the novel, special, appropriate and valid approaches. Ecological systems theory put forward by Bronfenbrenner points out that micro-system environment of family, peers and the Internet will affect the development of adolescents. While there have some differences between left-at-home adolescents and noon-left-at-home adolescents in micro-system environment because of their poor family of left-at-home adolescents, and their parents go out to work. We try to explore how the micro-system of family, peers, and internet to affect adolescent social creativity based on ecological systems theory, moreover to compare the influence between left-at-home adolescents and non-left-at-home adolescents.429left-at-home adolescents and213non-left-at-home adolescents were assessed with Internet use survey, social creative tendency questionnaire, parent-adolescent cohesion questionnaire, relationship quality questionnaire and peer nomination to investigate the relationship between Internet use and social creativity. The first Research is to compare the differences of social relation network, Internet use and social creative between left-at-home adolescents and non-left-at-home adolescents. The second research is to study how the micro-system of family, peers and the Internet influence social creativity, other more compared the affect between left-at-home adolescents and non-left-at-home adolescents.The results were as following. Firstly, there was no significant difference in internet use and social creativity between left-at-home adolescents and non-left-at-home adolescents, but there were significant differences in social relation network, No significant difference of parent-child relations and peer relations, only have significant difference of the grandparent-grandchild relation. Secondly, Subjective feeling contact frequency with their parents will positively predict parent-child relations, grandparent-grandchild relation and peer relations, objectively frequency of parents home and contact frequency negative predict grandparent-grandchild relation, objectively contact frequency and the duration time of parents to go out can positively predict peer relations. the frequency of parents to go home affects the media usage of adolescents. subjective feeling contact frequency with their parents affects the social creativity of adolescents. Thirdly, for the adolescents whose parents went outside for work, the relationship between online entertainment frequency and social creativity was mediated fully by grandparent-grandchild relationship, and for the adolescents whose father or mother went outside for work, the relationship between information retrieval frequency and social creativity was fully mediated by parent-child relationship. However, no mediating role of social relation network was found among non-left-at-home adolescents. Fourthly, in all groups, online entertainment frequency still have indirect effects on social creativity through grandparent-grandchild relationship, and the Left-at-home situation have a moderating effect on the mediating model.The research results indicated that there were no significant difference in internet usage and parent-child relations and social creativity between left-at-home adolescents and non-left-at-home adolescents. The adolescents could still be able to be healthy even in adverse environment if parents give adolescents enough care and love, and the grandparent-grandchild relation had compensation effect. Moreover micro-system synergy influence social creativity, we should pay attention to the synergistic effect of various micro-systems on adolescent’s education.