Communication Challenges of Parents and Their Adolescent Daughters With an Emphasis on Social Media Use: A Content Analysis Study

Abstract

Background: Challenge between parents and their children is a rapidly growing phenomenon in Iran. The communication challenges of adolescence with emphasis on social media in this study is a phenomenon that based on the changes and developments of adolescence, can affect the nature and quality of family relationships, question the parental authority, and cause changes in regulations. The present study explored the communication challenges of parents and adolescents with a focus on the use of the Internet and social media. Methods: This qualitative study was performed using content analysis. The research population consisted of several parents with children (daughters) who were studying in the first secondary school in District 11 of Tehran in the academic year 2019-2020. The participants were 15 parents who were selected using purposive sampling and based on the theoretical saturation criterion. The data were collected through semi-structured interviews and were then analyzed, codified, and categorized. Finally, after the extraction of the themes, the relevant and common themes were combined in the form of secondary and main categories. Results: Based on the content analysis of the data collected from the interviews, 4 main categories were identified: social media opportunities, social media coping strategies, social media problems from the parents’ point of view, and communication problems with the child. Conclusion: In the modern world, parent-adolescent communication challenges are intermingled with the common challenges of using social media. However, it is impossible to ignore the effective and useful presence of social media in modern life. Acquiring knowledge, training conflict resolution skills, and recognizing the factors related to conflicts between parents and adolescents can help parents and pave the way for reducing parent-adolescent conflicts and improving the quality of parent-adolescent communication concerning social media use.

Parents' Coping Strategies for their School Children's Issues: A Systematic Literature Review

“…In total, the main themes were reduced to ten themes only. Tu et al (2020) while the other ten research employed qualitative analyses (Boor et al, 2021;Dawes et al, 2021;Disasa 2022;Ilias et al, 2019;Johnson et al, 2020;Karaca & Konuk Şener, 2021;Liu et al, 2023;Saini et al, 2023;Wilmot et al, 2023;Wong & Wong, 2021). Meanwhile, three studies have applied the mixed-methods approach Chara et al (2023); Lewis et al (2022); Ünlütabak & Velioğlu (2022) (see Figure 3).…”

“…Regarding the context of issue touched by the selected studies, a total of seven papers involved raising autism children (AlBusaidi et al, 2022;Amireh 2019;Brillet et al, 2023;Gül et al, 2022;Ilias et al, 2019;Johnson et al, 2020;Lewis et al, 2022), while five articles related to COVID-19 pandemic (Aznar et al, 2021;Dawes et al, 2021;Morgan et al,2022;Saini et al, 2023;Ünlütabak & Velioğlu, 2022) and raising intellectual disabilities children (Auriemma et al, 2021;Disasa 2022;Karaca & Şener, 2021;Rajan & Romate, 2022;Wilmot et al, 2023). Two papers focused on the parent-children relationship issue (Boor et al, 2021;Donker et al, 2021) while following issue each research is regarding academic challenges (Tu et al, 2020), the coping strategy applied by children Santiago et al (2021), online learning from home Chara et al (2023), parent level of stress Cepuch et al (2022), raising Attention Deficit/ Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) children Wong and Wong (2021), raising disabled children (Kurowska et al, 2021), and social adjustment by left-behind children (Liu et al, 2023) (see Figure 4).…”

“…A total of seven papers focused on the autism children (AlBusaidi et al, 2022;Amireh 2019;Brillet et al, 2023;Gül et al, 2022;Ilias et al, 2019;Johnson et al, 2020;Lewis et al, 2022), while six papers focused on disabled children (Auriemma et al, 2021;Disasa 2022;Karaca & Konuk Şener, 2021;Kurowska et al, 2021;Rajan & Romate, 2022;Wong & Wong, 2021). Meanwhile, five papers concentrated on adolescents (Boor et al, 2021;Donker et al, 2021;Morgan et al, 2022;Saini et al, 2023;Tu et al, 2020), while the other three papers fixated on preschool & elementary school children (Chara et al, 2023;Dawes et al, 2021;Ünlütabak & Velioğlu, 2022). The following category of children contain a paper each: Children with leukemia or lymphoma (Cepuch et al, 2022), dyslexia children (Wilmot et al, 2023), children of Mexican origins (Santiago et al, 2021), home-school children (Aznar et al, 2021) and left behind children (Liu et al, 2023) (see Figure 5).…”

“…Meanwhile, Donker et al (2021) discovered that parents used active coping regarding their relationship problems with their adolescent children. Research by Boor et al (2021) discovered active coping strategies such as filling children's free time with sports, studies, training programs, scientific and educational programs, and online courses were used for handling communication challenges with their adolescents due to the influence of the Internet and social media.…”

The Effect of the Parent-Child Relationship Enrichment Training Package With An Emphasis on the Internet Use: A Mixed Methods Approach

“…Negative parentadolescent relationships disrupt family functioning and emotional bonds between family members, lead to problematic sibling relationships and increase conflicts between family members (Sanagoei, Etemadi, Sayyed Ahmadi, & Jazayeri, 2016). The emergence of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has transformed all aspects of human life, and all daily affairs have undergone significant qualitative and quantitative changes (Boor Boor, Khodabakhshi-Koolaee, & Falsafinejad, 2021).…”