Abstract
This study focuses on how co-parenting patterns may influence young people’s Internet addiction in the Chinese social context. The present study uses the Family Systems Theory to conceptualize the theoretical model and examines the intertwined effect of gender on the relationship between co-parenting and Internet addiction.A total of 695 self-report questionnaires from middle and high school students were analyzed. This study generalized two co-parenting factors based on original parenting styles’ measurement. Co-parenting patterns combined with strict and refuse parenting styles were significantly related to Internet addiction. The competing co-parenting pattern mixed with stricture and over-protection parenting styles strongly predicted children’s Internet disorder. Gender moderated the impact of co-parenting on Internet addiction.This study fills the research gap and explores the association between co-parenting and Internet addiction in Confucian cultural backgrounds. The findings yield a better understanding of the co-parenting effect and provide instruction for defending against Internet addiction among the youth. The developed measurements of the co-parenting and theoretical model will contribute to the knowledge pool of Internet use, parent-child communication, family relationship, and youth study.
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