ERIC Number: EJ1392070
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023
Pages: 37
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Online Risks at Adolescence. Design and Validation of a Parental Mediation Scale for Information and Communication Technologies (Riesgos en línea para los adolescentes. Diseño y validación de una escala de mediación parental para las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación -- TIC)
Gervilla-García, Elena; Lloret-Irles, Daniel; Cabrera-Perona, Victor; Fernández-Martínez, Iván; Anupol, Joella
Journal for the Study of Education and Development, v46 n3 p492-528 2023
Parental mediation in the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) is a protective factor against adolescents' online risk behaviours. This study aimed to design an assessment scale of parental mediation referred by minors and to explore its structure and psychometric properties. A total of 560 secondary education students (47.5% girls) informed, in addition to parental mediation, about their habits of connection and online communication, privacy and risky online behaviour, and cyber-victimization. Data revealed a Parental Mediation Scale for ICTs (EMP-TIC) composed of 28 items distributed in five dimensions: active regulation, restrictive regulation, co-use, software monitoring and personal monitoring, which explain 55.98% of the variance. The dimensions of monitoring and co-use showed significant positive correlations with cyber-victimization. Higher scores in parental mediation are associated with greater privacy. The Parental Mediation Scale (EMP-TIC) structure is coherent to previous theoretical proposals. EMP-TIC shows adequate psychometric properties and provides information about the parental patterns in the use of ICTs. The scale can be used as a total score of parental mediation or for each of the five included domains. [Spanish translation by Mercè Rius.]
Descriptors: Test Construction, Test Validity, Adolescents, Risk Management, Computer Use, Parent Role, Parent Influence, Psychometrics, Secondary School Students, Victims, Computer Mediated Communication, Parenting Styles, Privacy, Test Reliability, Foreign Countries, Safety, Internet, Social Media
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research; Multilingual/Bilingual Materials
Education Level: Secondary Education
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Identifiers - Location: Spain
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