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Parental Monitoring of Adolescent Social Media: An Exploration of Parents' Intentions to Monitor and Mediate Social Media.

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正題名/作者:	Parental Monitoring of Adolescent Social Media: An Exploration of Parents' Intentions to Monitor and Mediate Social Media./
作者:	Douglas, Kimberly D.
出版者:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2020,
面頁冊數:	154 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 82-06, Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International82-06B.
標題:	Nursing. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=27961203
ISBN:	9798557012669

Parental Monitoring of Adolescent Social Media: An Exploration of Parents' Intentions to Monitor and Mediate Social Media.
Douglas, Kimberly D.

Parental Monitoring of Adolescent Social Media: An Exploration of Parents' Intentions to Monitor and Mediate Social Media. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2020 - 154 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 82-06, Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Mississippi Medical Center, 2020.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

Background: Social media poses uncertain threats to sleep, depression, anxiety, and risk-taking in adolescents. Exposure to inappropriate content, questionable contacts, and cyberbullying have gained the attention of media, parents, and health care professionals. Parental monitoring of adolescent whereabouts and their friends has long been viewed as a protective factor to prevent teens from engaging in risky behaviors (Stattin & Kerr, 2000). However in the new digital era of social media, parental monitoring has become more challenging. Parental mediation of young children's internet use has been explored. However, few studies have examined parental monitoring and mediation of adolescent social media use.Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore parental monitoring and mediation practices of social media use by their adolescents. The research questions guiding this research were:1)What do parents know about the risks of adolescent social media use?2)What are parents' attitudes toward monitoring their adolescent's social media use?3)What are parent's intentions to monitor their adolescent's social media use?4)What mediation practices are parents using to subvert the negative effects of social media use?; and5)Does parental social media use correlate with intentions to monitor adolescent media use and/or mediation practices employed?Methods: Utilizing the theory of planned behavior and the parental mediation theory as a framework, an exploratory, descriptive, cross-sectional design was used to explore parents' monitoring and mediation practices of their adolescent's social media use. Parents of adolescents between the ages of 11 and 17 years were recruited via Facebook advertising to complete an online survey about their monitoring and mediation practices of social media use by their adolescents.Results: Eight hundred thirty-six surveys were used for analysis. The sample consisted primarily of mothers (n=710, 84.9%), white (n=672, 80.4%), and living in a two-parent household (n=483, 57.8%). Parents reported having knowledge of risks in their reported concern over 11 risks related to adolescent social media. The highest concerns parents reported was "private information getting into the wrong hands (50.9% extremely worried or very worried), followed by "depression" (47.3%) and "effects on health (44.5%).Parents reported positive attitudes towards monitoring adolescent social media (92.0% agreed or strongly agreed) and intentions to monitor their adolescent's social media use (76.8% agreed or strongly agreed). In addition, most parents in this study reported monitoring practices such as knowing the password to their adolescent's social media accounts (59.3%), email (66.5%), and mobile phone (73.3%) as well as other monitoring practices such as checking their teen's social media profile (81.9%). Most parents utilized restrictive, active, and co-use practices. Restrictive mediation practices included taking away (77.4%) or limiting time (70.6%); however, fewer parents used parental controls (58.9%) and web filtering software (47.7%). Parents reported talking to their adolescent about risky behavior related to social media, in particular, how everything sent over the internet can be shared (81.1%), what is appropriate to share online (77.5%), and talking with strangers (76.5%) among other topics such as sexting (71.0%) and cyberbullying (67.8%). Co-use practices were used; however less frequently (34.4%).Chi square analysis showed statistically significant differences in parental monitoring and mediation practices between parents of younger adolescents (ages 11-14) compared to parents of older adolescents (ages 15-17) and parents of sons compared with parents of daughters. Fewer differences were seen among parents of sons and parents of daughters; however, parents of daughters reported statistically significant higher rates of monitoring such as "checking your teen's social media profile" (female = 92.0%, male = 83.8%; χ2 = 12.302, p < 0.001) and active mediation strategies such as talking with your teen about "talking to strangers online" (female x = 4.41, male x = 4.13; χ2 = 19.188, p = 0.001). Parents of younger adolescents were more likely to report using monitoring such as "checked websites our teen has visited" (younger = 85.6%, older = 85.6%; χ2 = 27.865, p < 0.001) and restrictive mediation practices such as "used parental controls" (younger = 73.4%, older = 45.7%, χ2 = 64.713, p < 0.001) compared with parents of older adolescents. In addition, parents of younger adolescents were statistically more likely to report active mediation such as talking with their teen about "appropriate online behavior" (younger x = 4.29, older x = 4.06; χ2 = 17.643, p = 0.001), with the exception of sexting or stories of sexting where parents of older adolescents reported more frequent talks (younger x = 4.05, older x = 4.14; χ2 = 22.164, p < 0.001).Pearson correlation showed parental social media use, measured by three items, both positive and inverse, there were weak associations with intentions and monitoring and mediation practices. Parent internet skills showed weak, but significant positive relationship with all but one of the constructs of the theory of planned behavior. Parent social media use showed weak, but significant positive correlations with monitoring practices such as "checking websites the teen has visited" (r = .087, p = 0.013). Restrictive mediation showed inverse relationships such as "using parental controls" (r = -.113, p = 0.001) and "used web filtering software" (r = -.079, p = 0.026), but positive correlations with some active mediation practices such as, "reading a privacy policy" (r = .083, p = 0.020) and talking with your teen about "appropriate online behavior" (r = .099, p = 0.005). No correlations between parental social media use and co-use were found.Discussion: Findings from this study add to the knowledge of parental mediation of adolescent social media use and the utilization of parental mediation and theory of planned behavior theories to understand strategies parents use to subvert the negative effects of adolescent social media use. Future research may be needed to include parents from diverse ethnic and racial backgrounds to understand similarities or differences related to concerns and parental monitoring and mediation practices among these groups. Recruitment methods to capture parents of different races and ethnicity should be explored. Results of this study will guide and support the practice of health care professionals who interact with adolescents and parents. Furthermore, parents of pre-adolescents can benefit from the development of relevant, effective interventions to increase parental knowledge and technical skills in utilizing tools such as web filtering software and monitoring tools and provide support in discussing sensitive topics such as sexting in order to provide effective mediation practices.

ISBN: 9798557012669Subjects--Topical Terms:

528444
Nursing.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Adolescent social media use

Parental Monitoring of Adolescent Social Media: An Exploration of Parents' Intentions to Monitor and Mediate Social Media.
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Parents of adolescents between the ages of 11 and 17 years were recruited via Facebook advertising to complete an online survey about their monitoring and mediation practices of social media use by their adolescents.Results: Eight hundred thirty-six surveys were used for analysis. The sample consisted primarily of mothers (n=710, 84.9%), white (n=672, 80.4%), and living in a two-parent household (n=483, 57.8%). Parents reported having knowledge of risks in their reported concern over 11 risks related to adolescent social media. The highest concerns parents reported was "private information getting into the wrong hands (50.9% extremely worried or very worried), followed by "depression" (47.3%) and "effects on health (44.5%).Parents reported positive attitudes towards monitoring adolescent social media (92.0% agreed or strongly agreed) and intentions to monitor their adolescent's social media use (76.8% agreed or strongly agreed). In addition, most parents in this study reported monitoring practices such as knowing the password to their adolescent's social media accounts (59.3%), email (66.5%), and mobile phone (73.3%) as well as other monitoring practices such as checking their teen's social media profile (81.9%). Most parents utilized restrictive, active, and co-use practices. Restrictive mediation practices included taking away (77.4%) or limiting time (70.6%); however, fewer parents used parental controls (58.9%) and web filtering software (47.7%). Parents reported talking to their adolescent about risky behavior related to social media, in particular, how everything sent over the internet can be shared (81.1%), what is appropriate to share online (77.5%), and talking with strangers (76.5%) among other topics such as sexting (71.0%) and cyberbullying (67.8%). Co-use practices were used; however less frequently (34.4%).Chi square analysis showed statistically significant differences in parental monitoring and mediation practices between parents of younger adolescents (ages 11-14) compared to parents of older adolescents (ages 15-17) and parents of sons compared with parents of daughters. Fewer differences were seen among parents of sons and parents of daughters; however, parents of daughters reported statistically significant higher rates of monitoring such as "checking your teen's social media profile" (female = 92.0%, male = 83.8%; χ2 = 12.302, p < 0.001) and active mediation strategies such as talking with your teen about "talking to strangers online" (female x = 4.41, male x = 4.13; χ2 = 19.188, p = 0.001). Parents of younger adolescents were more likely to report using monitoring such as "checked websites our teen has visited" (younger = 85.6%, older = 85.6%; χ2 = 27.865, p < 0.001) and restrictive mediation practices such as "used parental controls" (younger = 73.4%, older = 45.7%, χ2 = 64.713, p < 0.001) compared with parents of older adolescents. In addition, parents of younger adolescents were statistically more likely to report active mediation such as talking with their teen about "appropriate online behavior" (younger x = 4.29, older x = 4.06; χ2 = 17.643, p = 0.001), with the exception of sexting or stories of sexting where parents of older adolescents reported more frequent talks (younger x = 4.05, older x = 4.14; χ2 = 22.164, p < 0.001).Pearson correlation showed parental social media use, measured by three items, both positive and inverse, there were weak associations with intentions and monitoring and mediation practices. Parent internet skills showed weak, but significant positive relationship with all but one of the constructs of the theory of planned behavior. Parent social media use showed weak, but significant positive correlations with monitoring practices such as "checking websites the teen has visited" (r = .087, p = 0.013). Restrictive mediation showed inverse relationships such as "using parental controls" (r = -.113, p = 0.001) and "used web filtering software" (r = -.079, p = 0.026), but positive correlations with some active mediation practices such as, "reading a privacy policy" (r = .083, p = 0.020) and talking with your teen about "appropriate online behavior" (r = .099, p = 0.005). No correlations between parental social media use and co-use were found.Discussion: Findings from this study add to the knowledge of parental mediation of adolescent social media use and the utilization of parental mediation and theory of planned behavior theories to understand strategies parents use to subvert the negative effects of adolescent social media use. Future research may be needed to include parents from diverse ethnic and racial backgrounds to understand similarities or differences related to concerns and parental monitoring and mediation practices among these groups. Recruitment methods to capture parents of different races and ethnicity should be explored. Results of this study will guide and support the practice of health care professionals who interact with adolescents and parents. Furthermore, parents of pre-adolescents can benefit from the development of relevant, effective interventions to increase parental knowledge and technical skills in utilizing tools such as web filtering software and monitoring tools and provide support in discussing sensitive topics such as sexting in order to provide effective mediation practices.
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