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@article{208213,
        author = {Poonam},
        title = {Family Dynamics and Adolescent Internet use: The Role of Parenting, Communication, Conflict, and Family Support},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2026},
        volume = {13},
        number = {4},
        pages = {942-948},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=208213},
        abstract = {Adolescents increasingly use the internet, social media, smartphones, and online gaming for education, communication, entertainment, information seeking, and identity development. While digital media offers important benefits, problematic Internet use (PIU), excessive Internet use (EIU), problematic social media use (PSMU), and problematic online gaming can interfere with everyday functioning. This review examines how family dynamics are associated with adolescent problematic digital use, focusing on parental warmth and care, monitoring, behavioral and psychological control, communication, family conflict, social support, socioeconomic conditions, parental modeling, and family connectedness. Evidence summarized in the supplied literature indicates that supportive parent-child relationships, positive parenting, appropriate monitoring, constructive communication, and family social support are generally associated with lower levels of problematic digital use. In contrast, family conflict, psychological control, inconsistent discipline, overprotection, parental phubbing, and some reactive restrictions are associated with increased risk. Psychological mechanisms including loneliness, depression, hostility, emotional insecurity, low self-esteem, and insecure attachment may help explain these relationships. The review also highlights the importance of developmental stage, school connectedness, peer relationships, and self-control. Overall, adolescent digital well-being is better understood through a family-centered and relational perspective than through screen-time prohibition alone. Because much of the evidence is cross-sectional, these associations should not be interpreted as simple causal effects.},
        keywords = {adolescence, family dynamics, problematic Internet use, social media, parenting, family conflict, parental monitoring, digital well-being},
        month = {September},
        }