ABSTRACT

Parents use digital-specific strategies to mitigate online risks and augment online benefits of digital technology in their children’s lives. The goal of this study was to develop and validate a measure of parents’ attitudes about mediation of digital technology. An internet-based survey was administered to 460 parents of children and adolescents in the United States. Exploratory bifactor analysis revealed one general factor, reflecting general parenting attitudes, and four digital-specific factors: discursive mediation, restrictive mediation and monitoring, participatory mediation, and mediation by modeling. Confirmatory factor analysis supported a bifactor model of the Digital Parental Mediation Attitudes Scale (DPMAS); the general factor explained shared variance related to parenting style and skills in general, while the mediation factors represented digital-specific attitudes. Construct validity was evidenced in differential associations between mediation factors and parenting efficacy, influence, child age, and parent and child technology use patterns.

摘要

父母使用数字特定策略来减轻在线风险并增加数字技术在孩子生活中的在线收益。本研究的目的是开发和验证父母对数字技术中介的态度的衡量标准。对美国 460 名儿童和青少年的父母进行了一项基于互联网的调查。探索性双因素分析揭示了一个反映一般养育态度的一般因素和四个数字特定因素：话语调解、限制性调解和监控、参与式调解和建模调解。验证性因素分析支持数字父母调解态度量表 (DPMAS) 的双因素模型；一般因素解释了与一般养育方式和技能相关的共同差异，而中介因素代表了数字特定的态度。中介因素与育儿效能、影响、儿童年龄以及父母和儿童技术使用模式之间的差异关联证明了结构效度。