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Northern Illinois University

Theses/Dissertations

2021

Digital parenting

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Left To Their Own Devices: Parents’ Mediation Of Children’S Technology, Rike Neubert Jan 2021

Left To Their Own Devices: Parents’ Mediation Of Children’S Technology, Rike Neubert

Graduate Research Theses & Dissertations

The current study examined the link between digital device use and learning among 3rd through 8th graders. Specifically, it examined whether parenting strategies aimed at enabling or restricting device use can mediate the link between children’s time on device and learning outcomes. Moreover, this study examined whether certain vulnerability factors within a child’s ecological system, such as ADHD Symptoms, parents’ own digital literacy, and parents’ relationship with the school, might weaken or strengthen the success of parental mediation strategies in the association between time on devices and learning. Findings aimed to inform growing equity questions around varying levels of digital …