Predictors of Parental Mediation of Child and Adolescent Internet Use and Their Association With the Opportunities and Risks of Such Use
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Predictors of the type of parental mediation of Internet use were investigated, in particular, age, gender, educational level, residence, digital skills and caregivers' risk perception, together with variables related to minors (age, gender and digital skills). Likewise, the predictive effect of the types of mediation on the opportunities and risks of contact was estimated, also considering the aforementioned variables. The data were taken from the Kids Online Costa Rica Survey, applied to a sample composed of 1008 caregivers (average age = 40,46; 78,9% female) and 1008 children and adolescents between 9 and 17 years of age (M = 12,75; 50,6% female). Results: digital skills and age of the child are relevant predictors of the type of mediation; active mediation predicts opportunities, restrictive mediation reduces the chances of risk, while monitoring mediation seems to be applied in the presence of risk.
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Mediación parental, Internet, Oportunidades, Riesgos, Habilidades DigitalesParental mediation, Internet, Opportunities, Risks, Digital skills
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Cabello, P., Claro, M., Lazcano-Peña, D. & Antezana, L. (2018). “La inclusión digital de niños y adolescentes chilenos desde la perspectiva de usos y habilidades”. En Estefanía Jimenez, Maialen Garmendia y Miguel Casado (Coords.) Entre selfies y whatsapps. Oportunidades y riesgos para la infancia y la adolescencia conectada (pp. 259-278). Editorial Gedisa.
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Good, Ph. (2013). Introduction to Statistics Through Resampling Methods and R. Wiley.
Helsper, E.J., van Deursen, A.J.A.M., & Eynon, R. (2015) From digital skills to tangible outcomes: Full questionnaire. Disponible en: http://www.lse.ac.uk/media-and-communications/assets/documents/research/projects/disto/Tangible-Outcomes-of-Internet-Use.
Livingstone, S., Lemish, D., Lim, S.S., Bulger, M., Cabello, P., Claro, M., Cabello-Hutt, T., …Wei, B. (2017). Perspectives on Children’s Digital Opportunities: An Emerging Research and Policy Agenda. Pediatrics, 140(140S2). doi:10.1542/peds.2016-1758S
Livingstone, S., Mascheroni, G., & Staksrud, E. (2018). European research on children’s internet use: Assessing the past and anticipating the future. New Media & Society, 20(3), 1103–1122. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444816685930
Livingstone, S., Ólafsson, K., Helsper, E., Lupiáñez-Villanueva, F., Veltri, G & Folkvord, F. (2017). Maximizing Opportunities and Minimizing Risks for Children Online: The Role of Digital Skills in Emerging Strategies of Parental Mediation, Journal of Communication, 67(1), 82–105, https://doi.org/10.1111/jcom.12277
López de Ayala, M., Martínez Pastor, E., Catalina-García, B. (2019). Nuevas estrategias de mediación parental en el uso de las redes sociales por adolescents. Profesional de la Información, (28)5. DOI: 10.3145/epi.2019.sep.23
Mascheroni, G., & Ólafsson, K. (2016). The mobile Internet: Access, use, opportunities and divides among European children. New Media & Society, 18(8), 1657–1679. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444814567986
Pérez Sanchez, R., y Torres Fernández, D. (2020). Mediación adulta de la internet: un estudio cualitativo con adolescentes costarricenses. Revista Colombiana de Educación, 1(79), 39-60. https://doi.org/10.17227/rce.num79-8205
Pérez-Sánchez, R. (2019). Informe Primera encuesta Kids Online Costa Rica. Fundación Paniamor- IIP-UCR.
Rodríguez-de-Dios, I., van Oosten, J. M. F., & Igartua, J.-J. (2018). A study of the relationship between parental mediation and adolescents’ digital skills, online risks and online opportunities. Computers in Human Behavior, 82, 186–198. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2018.01.012
Sonck, N., Nikken, P. & de Haan, J. (2013.) Determinants of Internet Mediation:, Journal of Children and Media, 7(1), 96-113, DOI: 10.1080/17482798.2012.739806
Steinfeld, N. (2020). Parental mediation of adolescent Internet use: Combining strategies to promote awareness, autonomy and self-regulation in preparing youth for life on the web. Education and Information Technologies. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10639-020-10342-w
Valkenburg, P.M., Piotrowski, J.T., Hermanns, J. & de Leeuw, R. (2013), Developing and Validating the Perceived Parental Media Mediation Scale: A Self‐Determination Perspective. Hum Commun Res, 39: 445-469. doi:10.1111/hcre.12010
Vaala, S. & Bleakley, B. (2015). Monitoring, Mediating, and Modeling: Parental Influence on Adolescent Computer and Internet Use in the United States, Journal of Children and Media, 9(1), 40-57, DOI: 10.1080/17482798.2015.997103
Van Deursen, A. J., & van Dijk, J. A. (2014). The digital divide shifts to differences in usage. New Media & Society, 16(3), 507–526. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444813487959
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Pérez Sánchez, R. (2022). Predictors of Parental Mediation of Child and Adolescent Internet Use and Their Association With the Opportunities and Risks of Such Use. Signo Y Pensamiento, 41. https://doi.org/10.11144/Javeriana.syp41.pmpu
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