Author(s)

Junyi Chen ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ School of Psychology, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, Fujian, China

Corresponding Author

Junyi Chen

ABSTRACT

Previous studies have found that different parenting styles can affect adolescents' parental authority recognition, but these studies have not fully considered the impact of the online environment on parental authority recognition. Therefore, this article will combine the factor of online self-disclosure to explore its role in the relationship between parenting style and parental authority recognition. By systematically understanding the relationship between these factors and taking into account the characteristics of adolescents growing up in the digital age, it aims to deeply explore the mechanism of these factors' influence on parental authority recognition, and hope to provide useful inspiration for practice and policy making to better help adolescents' mental health development.

KEYWORDS

Digital natives; Parenting style; Online self-disclosure; Parental authority recognition

CITE THIS PAPER

Junyi Chen, The impact of parenting style and online self-disclosure on parental authority recognition: A case study of the "digital native" generation. Applied & Educational Psychology (2024) Vol. 5: 74-81. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/appep.2024.050612.

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