Parenting Journal · Volume 2 · Issue 4 · Licensed source edition
Joint Profiles and Dimension-Level Networks of Parental Psychological Control and Problematic Short-Video Use Among Chinese Adolescents
Originally published 2026-10-13 · Behavioral Sciences
Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) · DOI 10.3390/bs16101893 ↗
Editorial reading guide · Independence
How would my teenager describe the rules around short videos?
This article examines how patterns of parental psychological control relate to teenagers’ short-video use. It offers a point of comparison for parents weighing useful structure against pressure that can crowd out a young person’s own judgement.
Who was studied?
Chinese adolescents whose reports of psychological control and short-video use were examined using profiles and networks.
Age / stage: Adolescence
Read with three questions
- What does the article establish about how patterns of parental psychological control relate to teenagers’ short-video use?
- Whose perspective was recorded, and what might an independent observer have described differently?
- How closely does the population described here match the family or setting you have in mind? The population to compare is chinese adolescents whose reports of psychological control and short-video use were examined using profiles and networks.
Keep the limits in view
The measures reflect what respondents reported. Associations alone cannot distinguish the direction of influence or exclude other explanations.
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Yan Yang; Yuchi Zhang; Gengfeng Niu (2026). Joint Profiles and Dimension-Level Networks of Parental Psychological Control and Problematic Short-Video Use Among Chinese Adolescents Behavioral Sciences. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs16101893
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