A model of parental mediation of their children’s use of internet connected devices
A model of parental mediation of their children’s use of internet connected devices

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this research was to build on prior research to develop a model of parental mediation of children’s use of ICDs based on an exploration of the parental experience in the mediation of ICD’s. A qualitative methodology, semi-structured interviews, was used to gather data from participants. There were five volunteering participating parents, who were recruited through social media forum advertisements. All of the participants had children between the ages of 9 and 16years of age. In this research a model of parental mediation of children’s use of ICDs was developed using a grounded theory orientation, which posits that parental mediation contains the elements of parental control and parental experience. Parental control consists of parental mediation strategy and tactics that can be covert or overt in nature. Parental experience contains parental anxiety, trust and knowledge of information. Risk should be considered as an element that overlaps between parental control and parental experience and that a dynamic relationship exists between parental controls and parental experiences. The model provides additional knowledge to psychologists, counsellors and psychotherapists, which may be of value to the therapeutic process.

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