对青少年的技术使用和负面影响进行细致的研究:准备的保护作用
Sean McFarland1, Tse Yen Tan1, Kalee De France1
1Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States.
Frontiers in psychiatry
|May 31, 2023
概括
青少年使用技术会产生负面影响,但做好准备可以起到保护作用. 了解青少年如何使用技术是减轻负面情绪结果的关键.
科学领域:
- 心理学 心理学 心理学
- 媒体研究 媒体研究
- 青少年发展 青少年发展
背景情况:
- 青少年在网上花费大量时间,特别是在社交媒体上,这引发了人们对技术对负面情绪的影响的担忧.
- 现有研究表明,关于技术使用与青少年负面影响之间的关系的研究结果各不相同,需要采取细微的方法.
研究的目的:
- 调查青少年如何使用技术,而不仅仅是多少,以及它对负面影响的影响.
- 检查技术准备在青少年技术使用和负面影响之间的关联中所起的调节作用.
主要方法:
- 利用了多维健康技术使用和社交媒体习惯量表 (MTECH),并调整了积极和消极影响表 (PANAS).
- 对7234名中高中生进行了调节回归分析.
- 评估学生对安全和成功使用技术的准备程度.
主要成果:
- 准备表现出保护作用,更高的准备程度与不同技术使用水平的负面影响较低有关.
- 在使用高频率技术的青少年中,这种保护作用在某些情况下有所减弱.
- 技术使用和负面影响之间的关联是复杂的,并由准备等因素调节.
结论:
- 青少年使用技术和负面影响之间的关系不是直接的,而是受到青少年如何以及为什么使用技术的影响.
- 促进健康的技术习惯和准备可以减轻负面的情绪后果.
- 未来的研究应该专注于调节因素,以更好地了解技术对青少年福祉的影响.
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