Parental mediation and its relationships to the formation of digital families' attitude among adolescent users of Social Networks
Keywords:
Social networking sites, Parental control, Supportive partner, restrictive control, Cyber-families, restricted control, emotional satisfactionAbstract
The study aims to estimate the relationships between parental control and adolescents’ attitude toward forming digital families. The correlational descriptive approach was used on a random sample of population consisting of 116 volunteers of an average age 19.86 years with a standard deviation of 3.05 years. The study prepared all instruments scales. The results revealed that there were positive relationships between supportive partner and constructive control. There were also positive relationships between emotional satisfaction and restrictive control.
