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Do Mothers' Educational and Ritualized Reasons for Allowing Their Children to Use Screen Media Affect Children's Screen Media Regulation Ability via Their Screen Media Time?

자녀의 영상미디어 이용에 대한 어머니의 교육적, 의례적 목적이 유아의 영상미디어 조절능력에 미치는 영향: 유아 영상미디어 시청시간의 매개효과

  • Ho Jung Kim (Department of Child & Family Studies, Yonsei University) ;
  • Dongmee Lee (Department of Child & Family Studies, Yonsei University) ;
  • Bitna Kim (Department of Child & Family Studies, Yonsei University) ;
  • Seung Hee Seo (Symbiotic life-tech Institute Human life Research Center, Yonsei University) ;
  • Ju Hee Park (Department of Child & Family Studies, Yonsei University)
  • 김호정 (연세대학교 아동.가족학과) ;
  • 이동미 (연세대학교 아동.가족학과) ;
  • 김빛나 (연세대학교 아동.가족학과) ;
  • 서승희 (연세대학교 심바이오틱라이프텍연구원 휴먼라이프 연구센터) ;
  • 박주희 (연세대학교 아동.가족학과)
  • Received : 2022.12.29
  • Accepted : 2023.03.02
  • Published : 2023.05.30
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Abstract

This study aimed to investigate the mediating effect of the screen media time of young children on the relationship between mothers' reasons for allowing young children to use screen media and their children's ability to regulate screen media. The participants consisted of 614 children aged 5-6 (312 boys and 302 girls), and all the survey questions were answered by their mothers. Descriptive statistics, Pearson's correlation, structural equation modeling, and bootstrapping analysis were employed to analyze the data using SPSS 25.0 and Mplus 8.6. The results were as follows. First, mothers' educational and ritualized reasons for allowing young children to use screen media and children's screen media time directly affected young children's ability to regulate screen media. Second, children's screen media time mediated the relationship between mothers' educational and ritualized reasons for allowing their children to use screen media and children's ability to regulate screen media. When mothers permitted their children to use screen media for educational purposes, their children were likely to spend less time on screen media usage which, in turn, increased their ability to regulate screen media. Conversely, the more mothers allowed their children to use screen media for ceremonial purposes, the more time their children spent on screen media and the less ability they had to regulate screen media usage. These outcomes suggest that, to improve children's screen media regulation ability, mothers must not routinely allow their children to use screen media and should manage their children's screen media time.

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This work was supported by a National Research Foundation grant (NRF-2020S1A3A2A02095619)

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