This two-wave survey study investigated the concurrent and longitudinal relationships between different styles of restrictive and active parental mediation (autonomy-supportive, controlling, or inconsistent), adolescents’ media violence exposure, and aggression. Our sample consisted of 1029 adolescents (10e14 years; 49.8% girls). Results indicate that restrictive mediation communicated in an au...

Article history: Received 6 September 2014 Available online 11 November 2014 The current research examined the effects of career-specific parental behaviors (reported by parents at time 1) on Chinese university students' career exploration (reported by students at time 2) and career adaptability (reported by students at time 3). A survey study was conducted among Chinese university graduates (N...

-This study focuses on the parental perception of their children’s viewership of violence in television programmes with respect to risk behaviour factors such as Explicit ‘Aggression’, ‘Identification’, ‘Imitation’, ‘Isolation’ and ‘Behaviour contingency’ as well as on other factors such as ‘Parental Mediation’ and ‘Parent-Child

Children use electronic screens at ever younger ages, but there is still little empirical research on how and why parents mediate this media use. In line with Vygotsky's zone of proximal development, we explored whether children's media skills and media activities, next to parents' attitudes about media for children, and several child and parent-family characteristics, predicted parental mediat...

Despite tremendous popularity of video games, there have been concerns about their detrimental effects on children. The game rating systems were developed to assist parents in monitoring their children’s gaming experiences. This paper explores how parents in Iran, as a society without established media rating systems, control their children’s gaming experiences. Mixed methods of semi-structured...

This paper explores the impacts of adolescents' screen time, learning outcomes and parental performance in relation to different mediation strategies. These issues are addressed through analysis a representative survey carried out with 1000 families Hungary 2017. Within this research, 12–16-year-old teenagers their parents were asked about experiences perceptions mediation. Four main strategies...

Title of Thesis: THE INFLUENCE OF PARENTAL RACIAL AWARENESS ON TRANSRACIALLY ADOPTED CHILDREN’S SELF-ESTEEM: A MEDIATION MODEL OF RACIAL SOCIALIZATION AND RACIAL IDENTITY Elizabeth Ott, Master of Science, 2013 Thesis Directed by: Associate Professor Leigh A. Leslie Department of Family Science Recent years have seen an increased empirical focus on factors that affect the health and well-being o...

The internet has transformed the way youth communicate, learn, and network, with implications for their broader social, psychological, and physical health and well-being. With the technological capability of accessing the internet from anywhere, at any time, paired with the enormous variety of internet activities in which youth engage—from social networking to chatting to streaming videos to pl...

BACKGROUND It is well known that the prevalence of overweight and obesity is considerably higher among youth from lower socio-economic families, but there is little information about the role of some energy balance-related behaviors in the association between socio-economic status and childhood overweight and obesity. The objective of this paper was to assess the possible mediation role of ener...