Effects Of Social Networking Anonymity,Self-Control Ability And Online Social Support On Online Aggression Of Adolescents

Online social networking not only enriches and expands the interpersonal communication of adolescents,but also increases the risk of them experiencing harmful behaviors such as online aggression.Adolescence is the transitional period from the gradual development of children to adults.During this period,the adolescents' thought and cognition are not yet mature.The self-control ability is in the process of development and is vulnerable to the external environment.Therefore,online problems behavior such as online aggression are more likely to occur.These behaviors have a negative impact on their physical and mental health development and psychosocial adaptation.Adolescents' aggression is mainly affected by the interaction of protective factors and risk factors in the two systems of personality and environment.Under the background of social networking,anonymity,self-control and friend online support as the risk factors and protective factors play an important role in the healthy development of adolescents' network behavior.In the past,research on the anonymity,self-control ability,and social support placed on the online social context to explore the impact of these three factors at the same time is rare.Therefore,this study intends to examine the impact of online social anonymity,self-control ability and online support from friends on online adolescents' aggression.Experiment 1 used experimental design to examine the impact of online social anonymity and self-control on adolescents' online aggression behavior.Experiment 2 further examined the effect of online support from friends on the basis of Experiment 1.The main conclusions of this study are the following conclusions:(1)Online social anonymity affects adolescents' online aggression behaviors.Under anonymity conditions,adolescents have higher levels of online aggression.(2)Self-control ability affects adolescents' online aggression behavior,and the level of online aggression behavior of adolescents with low self-control ability is higher;(3)Online social anonymity and self-control ability interactively affect adolescents' online aggression behaviors.Compared with those adolescents who have high self-control ability,adolescents with low self-control abilities have higher levels of online attacks under anonymous conditions;(4)Online support from friend influences interactively online aggression behavior,the level of online aggression of adolescents with friends online support is lower;(5)Online social anonymity,self-control ability,and online support from friends interactively affect online aggression behavior: compared with no-friends online support,online support from friends has reduced the level of online aggression of low self-control adolescents under anonymous conditions.This suggests that in order to reduce the online attack level of teenagers,we should not only consider the risk factors such as online social anonymity and low self-control,but also pay attention to positive protection factors,such as online support of friends,in order to reduce the impact of negative risk factors on adolescents.