留守儿童手机使用时间对其心理健康的影响

The Influence of Left-behind Children' s Mobile Phone Use Time on Their Mental Health

远在异地的父母为有效教育和监督留在家乡的子女, 为其配备手机以替代面对面的交流。然而留守儿童自制力较弱, 祖辈的监管又稍显乏力, 手机依赖现象屡见不鲜。单就手机使用而言, 对于其心理健康是产生积极作用还是消极作用?亲子关系和家庭教育方式在其中又扮演着怎样的角色?本研究使用2020年的中国家庭追踪调查 (China Family Panel Studies) 数据, 从中筛选出留守家庭样本, 用相应题项测量研究的核心变量, 使用逐步回归法研究留守儿童手机使用时间对其心理健康的影响以及亲子关系的中介效应, 使用分组回归检验家庭教养方式的调节效应。结果表明, 留守儿童手机使用时间对其心理健康的直接影响不显著, 但间接效应显著, 即手机使用时间负向影响亲子关系, 而亲子关系正向影响心理健康。留守儿童手机使用时间对心理健康的影响受到家庭教养方式的调节, 放任型教养方式下手机使用时间对心理健康具有显著的负向影响, 民主型教养方式下具有显著的正向影响, 专制型和权威型教养方式下无显著影响, 民主型教养方式与其他三种存在显著差异。

Parents who are far away from their children in their hometowns equip their children with mobile phones to effectively educate and supervise them as a substitute for face-to-face communication. However, left-behind children have weak self-control, and the supervision of their grandparents is somewhat ineffective, leading to frequent cases of mobile phone addiction. Regarding the use of mobile phones, does it have a positive or negative impact on their mental health? What roles do parent-child relationships and family education methods play in this? This study uses data from the 2020 China Family Panel Studies, selects samples of left-behind families, measures the core variables with corresponding items, and uses stepwise regression to study the impact of mobile phone usage time on the mental health of left-behind children and the mediating effect of parent-child relationships. Group regression is used to test the moderating effect of family upbringing methods. The results show that the direct impact of mobile phone usage time on the mental health of left-behind children is not significant, but the indirect effect is significant. That is, mobile phone usage time negatively affects parent-child relationships, while parent-child relationships positively affect mental health. The impact of mobile phone usage time on the mental health of left-behind children is moderated by family upbringing methods. In permissive parenting styles, mobile phone usage time has a significant negative impact on mental health, while in democratic parenting styles, it has a significant positive impact. In authoritarian and authoritative parenting styles, there is no significant impact. Democratic parenting styles are significantly different from the other three.