The Relationship Between Parents' Head-down Behavior And Mobile Phone Addiction Among Junior High School Student

In today’s fast developing Internet,mobile phone addiction and parental phubbing are becoming more and more common among middle school students.Mobile phone addiction is a behavioral phenomenon in which an individual’s functioning is impaired due to excessive use of mobile phones.Parental phubbing refers to the phenomenon that parents focus on their own mobile phones causing their children to be neglected and left out.According to the psychological needs network compensation dominance theory,parents’ neglect of their children’s emotional needs by playing with their mobile phones head down will lead to deterioration of parent-child relationship and decrease of parental cohesion,which in turn will lead to children’s mobile phone addiction problems.Meanwhile,the ecological systems theory points out that as the two most important microsystems for individual growth— — family and peers will interact while influencing individual development.Therefore,in the process of parental phubbing and parental cohesion influencing mobile phone addiction,the quality of friendship may interact with it thus affecting the growth of middle school students.However,most of the previous studies on parental phubbing are focused on foreign countries,most of the studies on mobile phone addiction are mainly on college students,and most of the studies on parent-child relationship are focused on parent-child conflict,and the existing studies do not discuss the mechanism of the interaction among parental phubbing,junior high school students’ mobile phone addiction,parental cohesion and friendship quality.Accordingly,this study explores the relationship between the four,based on the psychological needs network compensation dominance theory and the ecological systems theory,and examines the mediating role of parental cohesion between parental phubbing and junior high school students’ mobile phone addiction and the moderating role of friendship quality,so as to provide theoretical support and practical suggestions for the prevention and intervention of junior high school students’ cell phone addiction.This study investigated students who owned cell phones in two junior high schools in Qingdao,and administered the Low Head Behavior Scale,the Mobile Phone Addiction Scale,the Parent-Child Cohesion Scale,and the Friendship Quality Questionnaire.SPSS 26.0 and Amos 21.0 were used for data analysis.The results showed that:(1)Parental phubbing is relatively frequent and there were significant differences in the type of family income and highest parental education;mobile phone addiction is more serious among junior high school students and there are significant differences in gender and grade level.(2)Parental phubbing,junior high school students’ mobile phone addiction and parental cohesion have significant correlations,among which,parental phubbing and parental cohesion have significant negative correlations,parental phubbing and junior high school students’ mobile phone addiction have significant positive correlations,and parental cohesion and junior high school students’ mobile phone addiction have significant negative correlations.(3)Parents’ phubbing can directly influence junior high school students’ mobile phone addiction,and can also indirectly influence junior high school students’ mobile phone addiction through parental cohesion,i.e.parental cohesion plays a partially mediating role between parental phubbing and junior high school students’ mobile phone addiction.(4)Friendship quality played a moderating role in the second half of the mediation model with parental phubbing as the independent variable,junior high school students’ mobile phone addiction as the dependent variable,and parental cohesion as the mediating variable.This study enlightens us to improve the quality of parent-child and friendship from both parents and peers in order to alleviate the problem of cell phone addiction among middle school students.