VAR model-based values education for adolescents and the role of WeChat in it

The adolescent group is at the critical stage of forming ideological values. The individual’s outlook on life, deals, and worldview are gradually maturing at this stage, which must be correctly guided and scientifically educated. To maximize the role of values education for adolescents and youths and to help them develop an optimistic worldview, outlook on life, and values, we need to find the starting point of values education for adolescents. This paper attempts to establish a VAR model of the relationship between values formation and WeChat use among high school students in a city and explore the dynamic influence relationship between the two by using impulse response function and variance decomposition to get a precise result to verify the relationship, to provide some reference for values education of Chinese adolescents. It was found that with the establishment of non-traditional school papers and meeting notification channels such as school WeChat groups, adolescent students’ WeChat response rate was much faster than the standard notification response rate when teaching tasks were issued. The WeChat response rate continued to accelerate as time changed from 4~5 hours of processing time in 2015 to 0.3~0.5 hours in 2021. Teaching completion efficiency thus The efficiency of teaching completion is improved as a result. After the smoothness verification of the ADF variables, the three-time series variables of classroom education, values education, and the length of WeChat use were smooth at the 10% significance level, indicating that the relationship between the three is interrelated and the findings are credible. This further supports that using WeChat well for school education and student values calibration is reasonable and feasible.