Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
PLoS One. 2024 Sep 11;19(9):e0308229. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0308229. eCollection 2024.
In the digital era, the Internet has become a necessity in adolescents' daily lives. Many studies globally are exploring the influences of Internet use on adolescent development, but they focus on the negative impacts of simplistic "screen time" on adolescents' physical and mental health, rather than both positive and negative influences of multifaceted Internet use on multidimensional adolescent development. Specifically in rural China, adolescents live in disadvantageous and marginalizing contexts, and Internet use is widespread among this population. However, knowledge on Internet use and adolescent development in rural China is fragmented. It is still unclear in what ways Internet use would bring benefits or risks for Chinese rural adolescents' healthy growth. Therefore, the objective of this scoping review is to identify the current research landscape, gaps, and future directions in rural China contexts. It aims to provide a comprehensive overview of elements, findings, and limitations in existing empirical studies on the influences of Internet use on adolescent development in rural China.
The standard for conducting this scoping review is the five-stage model proposed by Arksey and O'Malley, and the reporting standard is the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses: Extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR). The overall research question is: What are the influences of Internet use on adolescent development in rural China? In consultation with librarians, to locate articles, subject headings (controlled vocabularies) and textwords (keywords) in article titles, abstracts, and author-assigned keywords will be searched in APA PsycInfo (psychology), China National Knowledge Infrastructure (interdisciplinary), Communication Abstracts (media and communication), Education Source (education), MEDLINE (public health), Social Services Abstracts (social work), Social Work Abstracts (social work), and Sociological Abstracts (sociology). The review process via Covidence will consist of two sequential steps based on inclusion/exclusion criteria: the title and abstract review and the full-text review. Then study characteristics and research findings will be charted, and the results will be analyzed and synthesized quantitatively and qualitatively via visualizations and narratives, guided by the typological frameworks of Internet use and adolescent development.
The scoping review will be a pioneering review to inform the current research landscape and gaps in the Internet use influences on adolescent development in rural China. It will advance the research agenda on this issue conceptually, theoretically, and empirically. In addition, it can provide contextual implications for designing prevention and intervention programs.
在数字时代，互联网已成为青少年日常生活的必需品。许多全球性研究都在探索互联网使用对青少年发展的影响，但这些研究都集中在简单的“屏幕时间”对青少年身心健康的负面影响上，而没有涉及多方面的互联网使用对青少年多维发展的积极和消极影响。特别是在中国农村，青少年生活在不利和边缘化的环境中，而互联网在这一人群中已经广泛普及。然而，关于农村中国青少年互联网使用和发展的知识是零散的。目前还不清楚互联网使用会给中国农村青少年的健康成长带来哪些好处或风险。因此，本范围综述的目的是确定农村中国背景下当前的研究现状、差距和未来方向。它旨在提供对现有关于农村中国青少年互联网使用对其发展影响的实证研究的元素、发现和局限性的全面概述。
本范围综述的标准是 Arksey 和 O'Malley 提出的五阶段模型，报告标准是系统评价和荟萃分析的扩展：范围综述的首选报告项目（PRISMA-ScR）。总研究问题是：互联网使用对农村中国青少年发展的影响有哪些？在与图书馆员协商后，将通过 APA PsycInfo（心理学）、中国国家知识基础设施（跨学科）、Communication Abstracts（媒体和传播）、Education Source（教育）、MEDLINE（公共卫生）、Social Services Abstracts（社会工作）、Social Work Abstracts（社会工作）和 Sociological Abstracts（社会学）中的文章标题、摘要和作者指定的关键词搜索主题词（受控词汇）和文本词（关键词）。通过 Covidence 进行的审查过程将包括基于纳入/排除标准的两个连续步骤：标题和摘要审查以及全文审查。然后，将对研究特征和研究结果进行图表绘制，并通过可视化和叙述对结果进行分析和综合，以互联网使用和青少年发展的类型学框架为指导进行定量和定性分析。
本范围综述将是一项开创性的综述，旨在为农村中国青少年互联网使用影响的当前研究现状和差距提供信息。它将在概念、理论和实证方面推进这一问题的研究议程。此外，它可以为设计预防和干预计划提供背景意义。
