| 其他摘要 | Nowadays, smartphones have become an indispensable part of people’s daily lives. Adolescent problematic smartphone use has become a ubiquitous problem, attracting widespread attention from all sectors of society. Among the many factors that affect adolescent problematic smartphone use, family factors have always played a vital role that cannot be ignored. According to Family Systems Theory, coparenting is a unique subsystem in the family system that involves three parties: father, mother, and child. It exerts a significant impact on the social adaptation and development of adolescents. However, previous relevant research in China has focused more on infants and children, while research on adolescents is relatively insufficient. Therefore, this study, based on the Ecological Model of Coparenting, adopted a mixed method for both qualitative and quantitative research to explore the impact and mechanism of paternal coparenting on adolescent problematic smartphone use, which provided a basis for relevant intervention programs to promote adolescents’ mental health and reduce their problematic smartphone use.
This study is composed of two parts. In Study I, by employing a qualitative research method, the researcher recruited 24 middle school, high school, and vocational high school students as interviewees via purposive sampling and snowball sampling, and explored paternal coparenting’s influencing factors, status quo, and impacts on mothers and adolescents, as well as adolescents’ expectations for paternal coparenting. In Study II, by adopting a quantitative research method, the researcher recruited 1699 students from a vocational high school in Henan Province for a questionnaire survey via convenience sampling. Based on qualitative research, relevant theories, and existing literature, a moderated mediation model regarding the impact of paternal negative coparenting on adolescent problematic smartphone use was built to explore the mechanism of such impact. Independent samples t-test and one-way ANOVA were conducted to test variance. SPSS 26.0 Process Macro Plugin v3.3 and Bootstrap method were used to test the mediation effect and moderated mediation effect.
Results of Study I: Through analysis on data from qualitative interviews, this study identified four core categories, including paternal coparenting’s influencing factors, status quo, and impacts on mothers and adolescents, as well as adolescents’ expectations for paternal coparenting. It was found that fathers’ and mothers’ personal characteristics and father involvement affected paternal coparenting, while paternal coparenting exerted impacts on mothers’ emotions, parenting behaviors, marital and mother-adolescent relationships, as well as adolescents’ emotions, cognition, behaviors and parent-adolescent and peer relationships. In addition, this study further examined the influencing factors of adolescent problematic smartphone use through narrative inquiry, and found that paternal negative coparenting affected adolescent problematic smartphone use, and peer communication could have both positive and negative impacts on adolescent problematic smartphone use.
Results of Study II: (1) The difference test among different groups showed that there was a significant difference in the scores of paternal negative coparenting in terms of adolescent gender; adolescent boys got higher scores; and there were significant differences in the scores of adolescent problematic smartphone use in terms of adolescent gender and age; adolescent boys got higher scores and younger adolescents got higher scores. (2) The correlation analysis results showed that paternal negative coparenting was significantly and positively correlated with adolescent depressive symptoms and problematic smartphone use, respectively; and peer communication was significantly and negatively correlated with adolescent depressive symptoms, and positively correlated with adolescent problematic smartphone use without significance. (3) The mediating effect analysis indicated that adolescent depressive symptoms played a partial mediating role in the relationship between paternal negative coparenting and adolescent problematic smartphone use. (4) The results of moderated mediating effect analysis revealed that peer communication not only moderated the relationship between paternal negative coparenting and adolescent depressive symptoms, but also the direct pathway between paternal negative coparenting and adolescent problematic smartphone use.
Conclusion: Paternal negative coparenting was one of the salient factors influencing adolescent problematic smartphone use. Adolescent depressive symptoms played a partial mediating role in the association between paternal negative coparenting and adolescent problematic smartphone use; and peer communication not only played a moderating role in the relationship between paternal negative coparenting and adolescent depressive symptoms, but also moderated the direct pathway between paternal negative coparenting and adolescent problematic smartphone use. The paternal negative coparenting had a smaller impact on depressive symptoms of adolescents with high levels of peer communication, and exerted a greater impact on problematic smartphone use of such adolescents. |
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