Furthermore, the adolescents’ family situation and the intervention of technologiesare varied; it is also critical to take the influences of external factors into account. Forinstance, the wide applications of family communication patterns can be used to verify thatadolescents in different family styles may be varied in their family relationships. In summary,this study applies five external factors to examine the moderation effects of adolescents’communication motives, relational maintenance and intimacy, such as age, gender, choicesof communication technology, reticence, and family communication patterns. The method ofintegrating mediation and moderation effects is expected to generate more solid results thanrelying solely on the interpretations of linear relationship (Edwards & Lambert, 2007; Hayes,2013). The hypothesized mediation-moderation framework is illustrated in Figure 1.