With the widespread availability of the internet, adolescents are spending increasing amounts of time online, particularly influenced by online games and short videos. Prolonged internet use can lead to declining academic per-formance, reduced social skills, and mental health problems. Research has found that parenting styles have a significant impact on adolescents’ internet use. Based on parenting style theory, this study explores how parental media intervention under four different parenting styles influences adolescent inter-net addiction behaviors, and, drawing on self-determination theory and social cognitive theory, analyzes how family education can reduce the risk of inter-net addiction by meeting children’s emotional needs and enhancing self-reg-ulation abilities. The study recommends promoting the authoritative parenting style and integrating efforts with schools and the state to establish collabora-tive mechanisms to better help adolescents avoid excessive internet use.
Ye et al. (Tue,) studied this question.