Parenting in the Digital Age: An Examination of Predictors and Outcomes of Parental Mediation
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Hong, Irene
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eng
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parental mediation , technology , parenting , adolescence , theory of planned behaviour , cyberbullying
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Parents are important socializing agents who influence their children’s development
throughout childhood and adolescence. The parenting practices they choose to engage in or not
can have significant impacts on youth outcomes, including mitigating risks associated with
technology use in adolescence. There is limited research, however, focused on understanding
factors that influence parents’ decisions to engage in parental mediation (i.e., practices to manage
youth technology use). As well, few studies have examined how child-factors (perceived parental
legitimacy and parent-child disagreement about parental messaging) may influence the
effectiveness of parental mediation on cyberbullying. The objectives of the current research were
to investigate factors that predict parents’ use of parental mediation and assess the effects of
mediation strategies (enabling and restrictive) on youth’s online experiences.
In the first study, a self-report measure of parental mediation grounded in theory
(Predicting Parental Mediation Questionnaire; PPMQ) was developed and validated. Results
indicated that the scale is a psychometrically valid instrument. The second study examined what
factors best predict parents’ use of mediation strategies, using the newly developed measure from
Study 1. Findings indicated that attitude and perceived behavioural control emerged as the best
predictors of parents’ intentions to use both enabling and restrictive mediation. The third study
assessed the influence of child-factors on the effectiveness of parental mediation in reducing
cyberbullying perpetration and victimization in youth. It found that child-factors (perceived
parental legitimacy and parent-child disagreement) strengthened this relationship for restrictive
mediation but not enabling mediation. Together, these findings emphasize the bidirectional
relationship between parents and children and demonstrate the need to consider both parent and
child factors when examining youth technology use.
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