Study On The Mechanism Of Parent-child Conflict, Anticipation Of Positive Outcome, Difficulty In Emotion Regulation And School Connection On Internet Addiction In Junior High School Students

Internet addiction will cause serious negative effects on junior high school students.According to the viewpoint of ecosystem theory,Internet addiction is influenced by environment and individual factors.For junior high school students,environmental factors mainly include family and school.Therefore,this study selected parent-child conflict in family factors and school connection in school factors,positive outcome expectation of individual factors and difficulty in emotional regulation,and explored the influence mechanism of various factors on junior high school students' Internet addiction.This study takes middle school students of grade 1 and grade 2 in Guang Zhou as the research objects and conducts a questionnaire survey.The questionnaires included parent-child conflict scale,Internet addiction scale,positive outcome expectation scale,difficulty in emotional regulation scale and school connection scale.Using SPSS21.0 and MPLUS7.0 statistical software,demographic variable analysis and structural equation modeling analysis were conducted on the obtained data,and the following results were obtained:(1)Demographic differences of variables: there are significant differences in the scores of parent-child conflict and parent-child conflict of middle school students,and the scores of mother-child conflicts are significantly higher than father-child's;Parent-child conflict has no significant difference in gender and grade.There are significant differences in grade dimension of Internet addiction in middle school students but not in Gender dimensions.Positive outcome expectations did not differ significantly by gender or grade.There was a significant difference in gender in the difficulty of emotion regulation,and the score of girls was significantly higher than that of boys.There are significant differences in grade dimension,and the scores of students in first grade are significantly higher than those in second grade.There is significant gender difference in the school connection,and the score of girls was significantly higher than that of boys but not in grade.(2)In the model of mother-child conflict and father-child conflict,the mediating effect of positive outcome expectation is significant,that is,parent-child conflict can not only directly predict Internet addiction,but also predict Internet addiction through positive outcome expectation.The mediating effect of father-child conflict model is partial mediating effect,accounting for 67.7% of the total effect,and that of mother-child conflict model is partial mediating effect,accounting for 77.7% of the total effect.(3)In the mediation model of father-child conflict,school connection can moderate the first path of the mediation effect,that is,father-child conflict and the positive outcome expectations.(4)In the model of father-child conflict and the mother-child conflict,positive outcome expectation and difficulty in emotional regulation can be used as a parallel intermediary and have an impact on Internet addiction.In the model of father-child conflict,the mediated effect of positive results is 62.8% effect,and the difficulty in emotional regulation is the 22% effect,and the two specific mediations are significantly different.In the mother-child conflict model,the mediated effect of positive outcome expectation is 71.00% of the total effect,and the difficulty in emotional regulation is the 27.2% effect,and the two specific mediations are significantly different.Comprehensive the above results,this study concluded that the mechanism of parentchild conflicts of middle school students with Internet addiction mainly includes the following four aspects,first is the parent-child conflict direct prediction effect of middle school students with Internet addiction,the second is parent-child conflicts through positive outcome expectation influence middle school students with Internet addiction,third is the school connection can play a moderated role in the parent-child conflicts,fourth is the parent-child conflict can be positive outcome expectation tied for mediation and difficulty in emotional regulation affect the middle school students with Internet addiction.