Media Mediation and Conscious Awareness of Mothers in Preschool Children's Use of Media Tools Investigation
Volume 8 Issue 3 (July 2023)
Büşra YILDIRIM İsa KAYA
Pages: 659-670 Download Count : 666 View Count: 738 DOI Number 10.24331/ijere.1248546 Facebook Twitter Share on Google+
Abstract:
This study was carried out to research the roles of mothers' conscious awareness and media mediation in the use of media tools by preschool children. The study was carried out using the relational screening model. The method used in the study is quantitative research. The study group consisted of mothers of 371 children attending preschool education in the academic year 2020-2021. The data were collected using the Demographic Information Form, Conscious Awareness Scale and Early Childhood Parent Media Mediation Scale. Pearson Correlation Analysis and simple regression analysis were used for data analysis. Following the study, a low/medium strength, significant correlation to the negative was found between the mothers' conscious awareness and lower dimensions of media mediation, while conscious awareness of media mediation roles predicted the active interpretative sub-dimension by 18%, restrictive inhibitory sub-dimension by 2%, restrictive limiting sub-dimension by 13%, active restricting sub-dimension by 4%, restrictive supportive sub-dimension by 14%, and active supportive sub-dimension by 19%.
Keywords
- Early childhood
- media mediation
- conscious awareness