Mobile phones, tablets, and computers bring convenience to people's life while also cause risks and problems, especially for adolescents. Privacy exposure, Internet addiction cyberbullying, phubbing, excessive use of eyes and so on plague people all the time. Parents are ambivalent; on the one hand, they hope to help their children acquire knowledge through the Internet, but they are also worried about the negative effects. Therefore, it is particularly important to take appropriate parental mediation.
Study 1 Objective: To explore the mechanisms of mobile phone restriction mediation on parent-child conflict, the mediating effect of parental autonomy support and the moderating effect of parents' phubbing. Methods: A questionnaire survey was conducted among 1022 adolescents by using the Restrictive Mediation Scale, Parental Autonomy Support Scale, Parent-Child Conflict Scale and Parents' Phubbing Scale, and hypotheses were tested by mediating and moderating analysis. Results: (1) Restrictive mediation was positively related to parent-child conflict and negatively related to parental autonomy support. Parental autonomy support was negatively related to parent-child conflict. (2) Parental autonomy support mediated the relationship between restrictive mediation and parent-child conflict, with an effect value of 0.11， and the proportion of the mediating effect was 28.21%.(3) Parent phubbing moderated the relationship between restrictive mediation and parent-child conflict. Adolescents with more parent's phubbing and restrictive mediation were more strongly positively related to parent-child conflict, and parental autonomy support was more strongly negatively related to parent-child conflict.
Study2 Objective: To explore the effects of different communication methods of mobile phone restriction mediation on parent-child conflict and the mediating role of acceptability and emotional reactions. Methods: A total of 272 adolescents were invited and 2 (object: "matter-of-fact" vs. "labelling") X 2 (critical comparison: "with" vs. "without") between-subjects design. Results: (1) Compared with "matter-of-fact", "labelling" is more likely to cause parent-child conflict; (2) Compared with no"critical comparison", "critical comparison" is more likely to cause parent-child conflict; (3) The acceptability and emotional reactions playa mediating role.
Parental autonomy support mediated the relationship between restrictive mediation and parent-child conflict while parents' phubbing moderated the path. For the communication methods of restriction mediation, "labelling" and "critical comparison" are likely to cause parent-child conflict. Therefore, parents should not only give their children more autonomy and set an example but also communicate with their children in a "matter-of-fact" way to achieve good acceptability and avoid negative emotions, which would lead to less parent-child conflict.
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