How Spatial Distance Affects Family Digital Feedback ——An Exploration Based On Theoretical Model Of Planned Behavior

The outbreak has brought to the fore the importance of digital family feedbacks,which are an important channel for the integration of the parental generation into the digital society when the parent and child live together.Although many previous studies have demonstrated the existence of digital feedbacks in the subtle context of the family and have conducted profound studies on digital feedbacks,there is a lack of research on whether distance has an impact on digital feedbacks in the context of today’s mobile society.Research.This paper follows the path of combining quantitative and qualitative research,with theoretical support from post-metaphorical culture,cultural feedbacks,and explanatory level theory,and uses the theory of planned behavior as the research framework to investigate how spatial distance affects digital feedbacks from the perspective of parental generation.In this paper,distance is used as the independent variable,and digital immigrants and digital refugees using smartphones are used as the research subjects.117 and 102 samples of data are collected through questionnaire research for statistical and analysis,and then 12 interviewees are selected from the participants of the questionnaire research,and in-depth interviews are conducted by semi-structured interviews.The first question is: What is the effect of spatial distance on the willingness and behavior of progeny to appeal to digital feedbacks,and the second is whether there are differences in progeny appealing to digital feedbacks compared to proximity and how they perform.The study refines the spatial distance variable into two independent variables,namely,"time problem" and "feed-back effect",and defines the claim feed-back as "claim feed-back willingness" and "claim feed-back behavior" according to the theory of planned behavior."The relationship between the two variables was analyzed by linear regression,controlling for "age" and"gender".The study found that,firstly,spatial distance had no effect on the willingness of parents to ask for digital feedbacks,while it had a significant effect on parents’ appeals for feedbacks,indicating that the more distant the distance,the less likely it was to produce appeals for feedbacks.Secondly,there are some differences between long-distance and close-distance digital feedbacks,mainly in that in the close-distance condition,neither the time issue nor the feedbacks effect has any effect on the feedbacks,while the feedbacks effect in the long-distance condition negatively affects the parents’ feedbacks,while the time issue does not.The study also found that although intra-family digital feedbacks were the preferred way for the progeny to learn digital knowledge,due to the negative effect of distance on the progeny’s claiming feedbacks,a significant proportion of progeny chose other alternative channels to solve their problems,such as face-to-face help from the young people around them,rather than their children,when actually solving their cell phone use problems.It can be seen that in the case of digital feedbacks within the family at a distance,social digital feedbacks become an important way to respond to the demands of the progeny.In response to this phenomenon,the relevant departments should take the lead in promoting the construction of digital feedbacks within the community and improving the media literacy of all people,so as to better respond to the digital feedbacks of the parents’ generation.