The Correlation Between College Students’ Usage of Short Video, Short Video Addiction, and Parent-Child Communication

Boya Education and Art Media College, Xiamen Institute of Technology, Xiamen, 361021, China

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Abstract

Short videos are a common source of entertainment for college students, which carries risk of short video addiction and may negatively impact parent-child communication. While many researchers have identified and explored the issues related to short video addiction among adolescents. Nevertheless, those studies focusing on college students remain limited and lack a unified understanding. This paper investigates the correlations between college students’ use of short videos, addiction, and their parent- child interactions. First, an online survey was used to gather reliable data. Second, statistical description and correlational analysis were performed in this study using SPSS. Findings indicate an association between short video usage and parent-child communication is not significant, while short video addiction shows a significantly negative correlation with parent-child interaction. These findings suggest that there is no necessary connection between normal short video usage and parent-child communication, addiction to short videos may have adverse consequences on parent-child communication, and it may also be a result of poor parent-child communication. From another perspective, short videos can serve as a bridge for parent-child communication, the effective parent-child communication may help reduce the probability of short video addiction.