THE EXTENT TO WHICH PARENTS OF TEENAGERS IN JORDAN USE AUTHORITARIAN MEDIATION PATTERNS IN MANAGING THEIR CHILDREN IN THE DIGITAL WORLD
Keywords:
parental awareness, digital world, parental mediation, authoritarian mediation, teensAbstract
Abstract: The study aims to measure the extent to which parents of adolescents in Jordan use organizational (authoritarian) parental mediation strategies such as traditional and technical restrictions or monitoring to integrate their children in the digital world. The study used the descriptive and analytical approach, through an intentional core sample of 469 items, through the application of a measure of the use of teenage parents in Jordan to patterns of authoritarian mediation in the digital world. the data were processed statistically, depending on the Statistical Package for social science. Parents use authoritarian regulatory ediation in a moderate degree overall, as parents use traditional and technical restraints mediation to a moderate degree, but the first type is more used than the second, and monitoring is used by parents to a large extent, there are differences in the use of authoritarian mediation between males and females in favor of females, between ages in favor of the youngest, and between income levels in favor of lower-income groups, while there are no differences in results due to the difference in educational level. Conclusion, from the foregoing, it can be concluded that parents use authoritarian mediation strategies to integrate their teenage children into the digital world, which requires educating parents about the side effects of this in adolescence specifically, and urging them to use democratic patterns instead of authoritarianism or a balance between them so that they can help their children To integrate into the digital world safely.
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