Young People's Attachment Relationship To Internet Use

Families provide a central environment and exert a profound influence on adolescents' social development. Parents contribute a lot to the cognitive and emotional development of their children and adolescents. In addition, adolescence is also viewed as a period of life in which the support of the peer group gradually usurped the influence of parents. Peer attachment has a great influence on adolescents' development of cognition, affection, personality, and behaviour. Parents and peers are central parts of adolescents' human relationship network. It is proved that adolescents with high-quality parental and peer attachment, compared with those with unsafe and alienated parental and peer attachment have been linked with decreased risk of emotional and behavioral problems, and healthy adolescent adjustmentWith the rapid development of internet, virtual cyberspace also becomes the environment of adolescents' development in addition to our real society. Therefore, it is reasonable to believe that the quality of adolescent attachment to their parents and peers may also have a great impact on adolescents' Internet use. Four hundred and five adolescent participants completed questionnaires to clarify the correlations between the quality of their attachment to mother and their Internet use. The result revealed that 1) mother-adolescent trust and communication predicted PIU negatively but didn't achieve the significant level; 2) mother-adolescent communication positively predicted their preference of Internet Information Exchange Service significantly; 3) adolescents' alienation from their mother positively predicted PIU directly and mediated by Internet Leisure Service and Social Service indirectly. Adolescents who feel alienated from their mother seem more likely to prefer Internet Leisure Service and Social Service, and then get more involved in PIU; 4) father-adolescent alienation positively predicted PIU directly and also indirectly mediated by Leisure services preference. 5) father-adolescent trust predicted PIU negatively; 6) peer communication positively predicted not only adolescents' Internet service preference of Information, sociality and Leisure, but also positively predicted pathological internet use (PIU) indirectly mediated by Leisure and Sociality services preference; 7) PIU was only positively predicted by peer alienation; 8)The interactive influence between parental attachment and peer attachment can not predict PIU significant.