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The relation between child raising attitudes of parents and their mediation role for the digital technology use of children

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The current study was carried out to investigate the relation between the child-raising attitudes of parents and the mediating role for children’s digital technology use. The study’s working group was made up of 236 parents having a child at the age of 48–72 months and staying in the city centre of Kars. The sampling was formed by using simple random sampling method to determine the working group of the study. Personal information form, parent view scale for child raising attitudes and early childhood parent mediation scale for media scale were used in the study. As a result of the research, a positive, significant relation at a medium level was found between parent view scale for child raising attitudes and early childhood parent mediation scale for media. it was also found that there was a significant relation between the dimensions of “Active Supporter” (r = 0.232), “Restrictive Supporter” (r = 0.237), “Restrictive-Limiter “(r = 0.394), “Active Interpreter” (r = 0.279) and “Democratic Attitude” variable and “Over-tolerant Attitude”, and it was predictive.

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Gürler, S.A., Ömeroğlu, E. The relation between child raising attitudes of parents and their mediation role for the digital technology use of children. Educ Inf Technol 28, 2229–2243 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10639-022-11266-3

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