The Influence Of Family Function On Social Media Addiction In Adolescents:the Chain Mediation Effect Of Social Anxiety And Resilience

With the booming development of smart phones,social media,with its characteristics of interestingness,anonymity and immediacy,has gradually become an indispensable part of adolescents’ daily life.Compared with traditional way of socializing(such as mails,text messages and phone calls),social media not only brings people changes in speed,but also attracts people to use social media because of the novelty brought by its diversification.New type of social media applications,such as QQ,We Chat,Twitter,Facebook,Weibo,Instagram and Tik Tok,are gradually occupying people’s smartphones.In recent years,the phenomenon of social media addiction to get the attention of many researchers.Some researchers have found that family function on adolescents problem behavior or addictive behavior have prediction effect,but the influence of the process mechanism of the mostly from the relationship of family function and adolescents’ smartphone addiction as the main direction,and no specific segment to a "virtual-reality" features of social media addictions.Therefore,based on the "Brand Internet Addiction Model","Factor-Process Integration Model",and combined with relevant studies,this study attempts to propose the hypothesis that family function is an important influencing factor of social media addiction.,and social anxiety as a coping mechanism for dysfunctions plays a mediating role in this process.As a result of psychological adaptation formed by family environment and individual social anxiety,resilience also plays a mediating role in the relationship between family function and social media addiction.A chain mediating model was constructed to explore the influencing mechanism of social media addiction in adolescents.In particular,this study used Bergen Social Media Addiction Scale,Chinese Family Assessment Device,Social Anxiety Scale for Adolescent and Resilience Scale for Chinese Adolescents to conduct a questionnaire survey among 604 high school students in two middle schools in Hunan and Jiangxi provinces.The results show that:(1)There is a negative correlation between the family function and resilience and social media addiction of adolescents,while there is a significant positive correlation between social anxiety and social media addiction.That is to say,adolescents with higher levels of family function and resilience have lower levels of social media addiction.The higher the level of social anxiety,the higher the degree of social media addiction.(2)Social anxiety plays a mediating role in the influence of emotional communication,egoism of family function and total score of family function on social media addiction of adolescents.That is to say,family function,emotional communication and egoism will have an impact on social media addiction of adolescents,and part of egoism and family function were through social anxiety.(3)Resilience plays a mediating role in the influence of emotional communication,positive communication,egoism,problem solving of family function and total score of family function on social media addiction of adolescents.That is to say,family function and four dimensions can have an impact on social media addiction of adolescents,and it can also be influenced by resilience.(4)Social anxiety and resilience play a chain mediating role in the influence of family function on social media addiction of adolescents.In other words,family function can not only directly predict social media addiction of adolescents,but also influence them through social anxiety and resilience.