Parents’ Perceptions of Children's Media Self-Regulation and Their Media Mediation Behaviors: Focusing on Differences Based on Parents’ Media Literacy Education Experience

Key Points

• The aim is to examine how parental evaluations of children's media self-regulation impact their media mediation behaviors and perceptions of negative influences.
• Utilized data from the 2020 Children’s Media Use Survey by the Korean Press Foundation
• Conducted structural equation modeling and multi-group structural equation modeling
• Analyzed differences based on parents’ media literacy education experience
• Negative evaluations of children's media self-regulation lead to increased perceptions of negative media influences
• Parents with media literacy education show no significant effect on the relationship between evaluations and mediation behaviors
• Parents without media literacy education demonstrate significant impacts from evaluations on perceptions and mediation actions

Abstract