The Perceived Influence Of Parents’ Mobile Phone Use Behavior On Adolescents’ Mobile Phone Use Behavior: The Mediating Role Of Self-control

In recent years,teenagers’ mobile phone use behavior has attracted much attention.The factors influencing teenagers’ rational use of mobile phones include not only external factors but also internal factors.Perceived parents’ mobile phone use behavior,as an external factor,has a profound impact on individual mobile phone use behavior.Perceived parents’ mobile phone use behavior refers to the degree of teenagers’ perception of their parents’ use of mobile phone functions or services.In addition,self-control,as an internal factor,also has an important impact on individual mobile phone use.Self-control is the ability of an individual to choose the target actively,control psychology and behavior,and finally achieve the goal without external supervision,control and requirements.Studies have shown that there is intergenerational transmission between parents’ behavior and their children,and self-control is closely related to teenagers’ mobile phone use behavior,while adolescents’ self-control is affected by various family factors.In addition,there is a lack of measurement and research on parents’ perception of mobile phone use behavior from the perspective of children in existing studies.Therefore,this study,from the perspective of adolescents,further studies the internal mechanism of the influence of parents’ perception of mobile phone use behavior on teenagers’ mobile phone use behavior,and analyzes the relationship between the three with self-control as the intermediary.Therefore,this study is divided into two parts:The first study is the preparation of the questionnaire on perceived parents’ mobile phone use behavior.Firstly,through careful study of domestic and foreign relevant literature,grasp the existing research situation of perception of parents’ mobile phone use behavior;Secondly,the students in junior high school were selected as the subjects,105 subjects were conducted an open questionnaire survey,the results were sorted and analyzed,and the preliminary questions were determined.Then,269 subjects were carried out the preliminary questionnaire survey,and the data wereanalyzed by using SPSS26.0 to carry out project analysis and exploratory factor analysis,and the items that did not meet the requirements were deleted.A formal questionnaire containing 32 items was preliminarily formed;Thirdly,300 subjects were tested with this questionnaire,and confirmatory factor analysis and relevant reliability and validity test were conducted on the data with AMOS24.0,and finally a questionnaire was prepared to perceive parents’ mobile phone use behavior in line with psychological measurement standards.In the second study,the relationship between perceived parents’ mobile phone use behavior,adolescents’ mobile phone use behavior and self-control was explored.A total of 439 subjects from three grades of junior middle school were selected from a middle school in Shijiazhuang County,Hebei Province by convenient sampling,and 439 students were investigated by using the Questionnaire on Perceived parents’ mobile phone Use Behavior,the Self-control Scale for Middle School Students and the Mobile Phone Use Behavior Scale compiled in Study 1.After statistical analysis,the main conclusions are as follows:(1)The self-designed questionnaire for perceiving parents’ mobile phone use behavior contains 32 questions from four dimensions: overuse,attention diversion,information viewing and conscious immersion.The questionnaire is reasonable in structure,good in reliability and validity,and meets the requirements of psychometrics scale preparation.It can be used as a reliable tool to measure teenagers’ perception of parents’ mobile phone use behavior.(2)Teenagers perceive more communication and payment functions of parents’ mobile phone use,followed by leisure and entertainment functions.(3)In the perception of parents’ mobile phone use behavior,the level of parents’ information viewing is the highest;The emotion,behavior and thinking of self-control of middle school students are above the average level;Teenagers’ overall mobile phone use behavior is good,which is specifically reflected in the high score of tool extension dimension.(4)There are significant differences in perceived parents’ mobile phone use behavior in terms of gender,grade and home location.The self-control of middle school students has significant differences in whether they live in school,grade,academic performance in class,years of mobile phone use and father’s education level.There are significant differences in teenagers’ mobile phone use behavior in terms of gender,grade,mobile phone type and mobile phone use years.(5)Perceived parents’ mobile phone use behavior positively predicted teenagers’ mobile phone use for leisure and entertainment,while parents’ attention shift and parents’ consciousness immersion positively predicted teenagers’ Internet application;Self-control negatively predicted adolescents’ leisure,entertainment and Internet applications;Perception of parents’ mobile phone use negatively predicts adolescent self-control.(6)Behavioral self-control in self-control plays a complete mediating role between the four dimensions of parents’ mobile phone use perception,namely,parents’ overuse,parents’ attention shifting,parents’ information viewing and parents’ consciousness immersion,and the two dimensions of teenagers’ mobile phone use,namely,recreation and Internet application.