Study On Social Networks During Adolescence: Structure And Impact On Interpersonal Relationship

Based on "Chinese social model of interpersonal relationship", this research put forward the SNA (Social Networks Analysis) to analyze the developmental features and trait during adolescence. The SNI (Social Networks Inventory) was adapted as a main tool to investigate 170 participators who were divided into different levels. The social network coding inventory stemmed from the scientific coding rules made a great contribution to the data collection and analyses. Meanwhile some statistics methods such as, ANOVA and Ridge Regression were used to discuss the structure, relation types and strength of adolescent social networks, which resulted in great impact on adolescence interpersonal relationship. The result indicated that parents, friends from high school to university and present class were all important relation factors in the networks; furthermore as the important guideline of the relation strength, network intimacy greatly influenced the interpersonal relationship among adolescents. Then the author suggests building up bi-level and bi-channel networks for adolescent mental health education. In the prospect research, reseacher also raised some realistic advice to improve the network construction of mental supporting system and education mode, inspecting the influences to adolescence with combing computer network and social network.