An Analysis Of The Interaction Between Mobile Game Behaviors Of Left-behind Children In Rural Areas And Real Social Communication

With the deepening of my country’s urbanization process,a large number of young and middle-aged laborers have poured into cities to work,creating a new special group-"left-behind children".Due to long-term separation from their parents,lack of effective parental guidance,and lack of family care and warmth,left-behind children have alienated parent-child relationships,teacher-student relationships are in a passive position,peer group relationships lack communication skills,and social interactions in the real world have been repeatedly frustrated.At present,with the rapid development of smart technology,the mobile game industry continues to grow.Mobile games attract the attention of players by virtue of their vivid pictures and the pleasure of operation.With the integration of social functions into mobile games,mobile games have captured the attention of many left-behind children with strong communication and interactivity,which makes mobile game socialization appear as a new social method in the daily life of left-behind children.This study takes the mobile gaming behavior of left-behind children in rural areas as the research object,and takes left-behind children in Community A in Jiangxia District,Wuhan City,Hubei Province as the survey object.In-depth interview and observation methods are adopted to investigate the social interaction and games of left-behind children in a community Social behavior.First of all,from the perspective of parent-child relationship,peer group relationship,and teacher-student relationship,the specific situation of the social interaction of left-behind children is investigated.Secondly,relying on the theory of strong-weak relationship,it studies the interaction between left-behind children’s real social communication and mobile gaming social behavior.Finally,discuss the impact of left-behind children’s social interactions with mobile games on the real-world social interactions of left-behind children.The study found that the social behaviors of left-behind children in mobile games strengthened their real social relationships in terms of consolidating existing social relationships and expanding new interpersonal relationships;they weakened their real social relationships when there were social conflicts in mobile games or excessively indulged in mobile games.In this regard,the author proposes specific plans for active and healthy mobile game interactions on how to deal with the influence of mobile game social interaction.