INVESTIGATING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MEDIA LITERACY LEVELS AND MEDIA MEDIATION BEHAVIORS OF PARENTS WITH CHILDREN AGED 60-72 MONTHS

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2024-5

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Doğan, Hilal

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The primary purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between parents' media literacy levels and media mediation behaviors. In this quantitative study, data were gathered from 350 parents with 60–72-month-old children residing in Ankara, using three instruments: The Demographic Information Form, Media Literacy Level Determination Scale, and Early Childhood Parental Mediation Scale. In the main study, one-way analysis of variance, correlational method, and independent-sample t-test were used. The most prominent finding of this study is a statistically significant relationship between all media literacy dimensions and active-supportive, restrictive supportive, and active-interpreter components along with the total mediation scores. The findings revealed a significant difference in parents' media literacy regarding their gender and educational level, while no statistically significant difference was found in parents' media literacy and their age and income. Moreover, a statistically significant difference is seen between some of the media mediation components and parents' educational levels, income, age, gender, and number of children. More than half of the children in the study sample routinely utilize their parents' television and smartphones in their home environment for 15-60 minutes a day, between the hours of 16:01-20:00, while parents utilize the internet for at least 2 hours on a daily basis, enabling children's preference for using media tools to access entertainment, music, violence and information content.

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Media, Media Literacy, Mediation, Active Mediation, Restrictive Mediation

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/109528

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis