<p>Parental mediation of digital technology is influential within the dynamic and bidirectional process of digital socialization in which contemporary parents and children engage. Utilizing a person-centered approach and multidimensional measure of digital parental mediation strategies, four latent profiles of digital parental mediation styles were identified: one “high” and one “average” digital meditation style, and two “low” involvement styles, demarcated by parents’ emphasis on mediation by modeling. These profiles were generalizable across mothers and fathers, and differentially associated with relevant covariates (including parent income and race, child age, parent and child screen time, and parents’ technology-related confidence and worry). This study demonstrates the heterogeneity of digital parental mediation styles among a representative sample of parents in the United States.</p>

错误:搜索内容不能为空,请输入英文关键词
错误:关键词超出字数限制,请精简
高级检索

Styles of Digital Parental Mediation: A Multi-Group Person-Centered Approach

  • Jessica L. Navarro,
  • Michaeline Jensen

摘要

Parental mediation of digital technology is influential within the dynamic and bidirectional process of digital socialization in which contemporary parents and children engage. Utilizing a person-centered approach and multidimensional measure of digital parental mediation strategies, four latent profiles of digital parental mediation styles were identified: one “high” and one “average” digital meditation style, and two “low” involvement styles, demarcated by parents’ emphasis on mediation by modeling. These profiles were generalizable across mothers and fathers, and differentially associated with relevant covariates (including parent income and race, child age, parent and child screen time, and parents’ technology-related confidence and worry). This study demonstrates the heterogeneity of digital parental mediation styles among a representative sample of parents in the United States.