Effect Of Parental Rejection On Middle School Students’ Online Flaming ——A Moderated Mediation Model

Although the popularity of the Internet has brought much convenience to adolescents,it has also fostered various forms of online deviant behaviors.Online flaming is particularly prominent and frequent.Therefore,it is essential to deeply explore the internal mechanism of middle school students’ online flaming,which will provide a more accurate entry point for the prevention and intervention of middle school students’ online flaming.In this study,we constructed a moderated mediation model to examine whether hostile attribution bias mediated the relation between parental rejection and middle school students’ online flaming,and whether this mediating process was moderated by family function.In this study,1053 middle school students from 6 middle schools in Guangdong Province were investigated on their parental rejection,online flaming,hostile attribution bias and family function by using Parental Rejection Questionnaire,Online Flaming Scale,Word Sentence Association Paradigm for Hostility and Family Assessment Device-GF.The data were input by epidata3.1,analyzed by spss25.0 and mplus8.3.The results are as follows:（1）After controlling for whether only child,gender,family monthly income,and parents’ educational level,parental rejection can significantly positively predict middle school students’ online flaming（β=0.34,p<0.001）;（2）The mediating effect of hostile attribution bias between parental rejection and middle school students’ online flaming is significant.The indirect effect of hostile attribution bias was estimated to be 0.07,and the mediating effect accounted for 23.33% of the total effect.（3）Family function plays a moderating role between parental rejection and hostile attribution bias and plays a moderating role between parental rejection and middle school students’ online flaming.The moderator can significantly predict hostile attribution bias（β=0.07,p<0.05）and online flaming（β=0.09,p<0.05）of middle school students.Based on the above results,this study draws the following conclusions: parental rejection can significantly positively predict middle school students’ online flaming;hostile attribution bias plays a mediating role between parental rejection and middle school students’ online flaming;family function plays a moderating role in the first half path and direct path of the mediating model.