Relationships between Parental Internet Intervention, School Engagement and Risky Online Behaviors among Adolescents: and Family Cohesion as a Moderator

• Main Authors: Lin, Han-Tang, 林漢唐
• Other Authors: Chen, Huey-Jiuan
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2016
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/bxm75v

碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 教育心理與輔導學系 === 104 === The purpose of this study want to examine the relationships between the risky online behaviors, parental Internet intervention, family cohesion and school engagement among adolescents. The moderating role of family cohesion in the relationship between parental Internet intervention and risky online behavior was examined. Participants of this study were 1,006 adolescents (496 boys and 510 girls, mean age = 13.2 years old) in junior high schools of Taiwan, including Western island, Penghu, Kinmen, and Lianjiang. All the participants completed the self-made Risky Online Behavior Scale (active cyberbulling, passive cyberbullied, making friends via net, Internet stickiness, online pornography, network violence and online privacy), self-made Parental Internet Intervention Scale (technology intervention, monitoring, restriction and recommendations/participation), revised Family Cohesion Scale and revised School Engagement Scale (behavioral engagement, emotional engagement, behavioral disaffection and emotional disaffection). The obtained data was analyzed using the descriptive statistics, ANOVA, Pearson correlation analysis, multiple and regression analysis. The main findings of the study are as follows: 1. In this survey, nearly half of adolescents at least in one subtest scored above the median. 2. Ninth-grade students scored higher than seventh-grade students in all kinds of risky online behaviors, and higher than eighth-grade students in online pornography. Eighth-grade students had higher level in active cyberbullying, Internet stickiness, online pornography and network violence than seventh-grade students. There were high levels of passive cyberbullied, making friends via net, Internet stickiness, online pornography, and online privacy among teen smartphone owners. Boys were exposed to Internet porn more often than were girls. 3. There were significantly positive relations between the online risky behavior and parental monitoring, behavioral disaffection or emotional disaffection at school; there were significantly negative relations between parental restriction, family cohesion, behavioral engagement or emotional engagement at school. 4. The results of stepwise regression were found that school disaffection and parental monitoring positively predicted adolescents risky online behaviors; school disaffection significantly predicted all kinds of risky online behaviors, and parental monitoring significantly predicted active cyberbulling, passive cyberbullied, making friends via net, online pornography, network violence and online privacy. Parental restrict and family cohesion negatively predicted risky online behaviors; parental restrict negatively predicted making friends via net, online pornography and network violence. Family cohesion negatively predicted active cyberbulling, passive cyberbullied, Internet stickiness and network violence. The impact of the predictor variables on the risky online behavior among adolescents were school disaffection, parental monitoring, restriction and family cohesion. 5. The relationship between parental internet intervention and risky online behaviors among adolescents was moderated by family cohesion. The positive relation between parental monitoring and risky online behaviors among adolescents was stronger at low level of family cohesion compared to high level. The negative relation between parental restriction and risky online behaviors among adolescents was significant as family cohesion was very connected; there was no relation between restriction and risky online behaviors among adolescents as family in disengaged cohesion. According to the findings of this study, suggestions are provided to schools, familys, and further researches.