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The Impact of Social Media on Teenagers' Communication and Imitation: A Study Based on Different Family Backgrounds

Jian LiZhengzhou Foreign Language School*

* Corresponding author: [email protected]

Abstract

The issue of juvenile delinquency has been continuously threatening the legitimate rights and interests of teenagers. There is a huge number of criminal behaviors that are related to the adolescent. With the development of the Internet, juvenile criminal behaviors have been widely spread through social media, which will significantly increase the rate of juvenile delinquency. Moreover, the differentiation among families’ income would also intensify the conflict in society. This study aims to research how the social media could influence a teenager’s crime behavior. Also, the family background would be an intermediate variable in order to determine the relationship between family condition, social media addiction and juvenile delinquency. The result shows that the different ways to limit the students contacting with the Internet and parents’ profession, relation, incomes tend to impact the level of students getting in touch with harmful content. The most effective ways to relieve this problem is to let the government, school, social media, and parents work together to prevent the over-exposure of Internet of the student in multi-dimension.

Keywords: Juvenile delinquency; social media; family background; crime
Published: October 23, 2025
DOI: 10.54254/2753-7064/2025.KM28137
Volume: CHR Vol.86
pp. 40-44
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