Document Type : Research Article
Authors
1 Department of Counseling, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Tehran, Tehran. Iran
2 Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Tehran
3 Department of counseling, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Tehran, Tehran. Iran
Abstract
Introduction
Adolescence is a period of rapid biological, psychological and social changes that have a significant effect on the relationship of adolescents with others, including the relationship with their parents. The relationship between parents and adolescents is important in this developmental period, so that the most important and critical relationship in adolescence is established with parents and conflicts between them can be one of the stressful experiences of this period for a person. Various variables have a role in the quality of relationship and interaction among adolescents and parents that cyberspace is one of the effective them. Today, due to the expansion of the Internet and the use of cyberspace, many changes have been made in people's relationships and their lifestyles, especially in adolescences, so the internet has become an integral component of adolescents’ daily lives. Therefore, The purpose of the present study was to examine the experience of adolescents on how interact with their parents due to the use of cyberspace.
Method
The research method was qualitative and phenomenology. The population of this study included adolescents aged 16 -18 in Tehran in 1402-1403. The participants were selected through purposeful and the sampling continued until saturation. At final, in-depth semi-structured interview was conducted with 14 participants (8 girls and 6 boys). After transcribing the text of interviews, the data were analyzed using the seven-stop Colaizi’s method.
Results
Based on the analysis of the lived experience of the participants in the current research, 24 primary concepts, 8 sub-concepts and 4 main concepts were extracted. The main concepts and sub-concepts of this study included: 1) the pattern of parents in relation with the use of cyberspace (cognitive-emotional, behavioral), 2) the reactive pattern of adolescents in relation to their parents in the use of cyberspace (cognitive-emotional, behavioral), 3) Consequences of using cyberspace in parent-adolescent relationship (strengthening of relation, disturbance in the relations) and 9) adolescent’s demands from parents (supervision and support “logical” of adolescents, increasing the presence and intimacy of the parent-adolescent).
Discussion
The results suggest that only the use of cyberspace cannot disrupt or strengthen the relationship parents-adolescents, but parent-adolescent interaction style, the type of control and supervision of the parents, and the way of parents use the cyberspace are the important factors that affect the consequences of using the cyberspace in the relationship parent-adolescent.
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