| Zongkui Zhou a Professor of School of Psychology of the Central China Normal University, the director of the Key Laboratory of Adolescent Cyberpsychology and Behavior, Ministry of Education. He is also the executive director of the Chinese Psychological Association, the director of the Network Psychology Committee of the Chinese Psychological Association and the China Psychology Associate Director of the Society for Developmental Psychology.
Dr. Zhou’s research interests are the developmental and educational psychology, cyberpsychology, and mental health education. His long-term research concerns include the social and personality development of children and adolescents, the growth and education of left-behind children in rural areas, the mental health education in primary and secondary schools, and the psychological and behavioral development of adolescents. He has led more than 10 projects including the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the major projects of the National Social Science Fund, and the international collaborative projects. He has been entitled leading talent of several national projects. |
As epoch-making inventions in the history of human
beings, the digital techniques including internet and mobile phone have
comprehensively changed the lifestyle of contemporary people. Adolescents and
youth are the most active mobile phone users and network group on the Internet,
and also the group most vulnerable to the impacts of digital tools. The digital
environment has the characteristics of anonymity, asynchrony, transcendence,
and disinhibition, which make it have an important effect on students'
self-development, cognitive development, social interaction, emotional
adaptation and behavioral adaptation. Based on the ecological techno-microsystem
theory, the model of interaction between human and technology, the third space
hypothesis of the network, etc., we re-thought the way for a better
understanding the development of adolescents and youth in the digital
environment, and propose the development characteristics of cognitive
schema-emotional attitude-behavior. From the perspective of researchers,
educators and parents, we discussed how to effectively play the positive role
of the network in adolescents’ development, so that promoting
network technology to be better applied for the healthy growth of adolescents
and providing guidance of education and training for adolescents in the digital
environment.
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