Interparental conflict and adolescent online flaming: the chain mediating roles of psychological stress and online disinhibition
Suizhi Zeng, Zhijun Liu, Lei Zheng · 2026
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Suizhi Zeng and co-authors trace how conflict between parents can end in teenagers flaming strangers online, in a 2026 study. Flaming means hostile, insulting posts, and the authors surveyed nearly eleven hundred Chinese adolescents about fighting at home, their stress, and their online behavior. The chain they test runs from the living room to the screen.
Parental conflict predicted more flaming directly, and also through two middlemen. One is psychological stress; the other is online disinhibition, the loosened restraint people feel behind a screen, in toxic and seemingly harmless forms. Stress fed disinhibition, completing a chain from home tension to online aggression. The team also compared boys and girls in the model. The findings argue that cooling conflict at home, and teaching stress skills, may clean up adolescent behavior online more than policing the internet itself.
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| CREATOR | Suizhi Zeng, Zhijun Liu, Lei Zheng |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 53 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |