Focusing on Adolescent Short-Video Addiction: Roots and Parental Coping Strategies

This paper focuses on the problem of short video addiction among adolescents, deeply analyzes its causes, and provides coping strategies for parents. The study finds that short video addiction originates from multiple factors, including plat-form characteristics, adolescents’ psychological traits, family environment, and social environment. To prevent children from becoming addicted, parents should strengthen parent–child communication and companionship, set a good example, cultivate children’s media literacy, and establish family rules. If chil-dren are already addicted, parents need to be keenly aware, communicate openly with them, enrich their lives, pay attention to their psychological needs, and seek professional help when necessary. It is expected that families, schools, and society will form a joint force to guide adolescents in using short videos correctly and promote their healthy development.