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The Role of Parental Mediation in Preventing Adolescent Addiction to Digital Media (102164)
Session Chair: Shendah Benoit
Sunday, 4 January 2026 15:00
Session: Session 4 (Parallel)
Room: Hawaii Convention Center: Room 302A
Presentation Type: Oral Presentation
This study examined the effects of four parental mediation strategies—active, restrictive, monitoring, and technical—on adolescent digital media addiction across social media, online gaming, and short-form video platforms. Two waves of online surveys were conducted with 2,000 participants aged in their late teens, spaced four months apart and matched to national demographic quotas. Measures included validated scales for parental mediation and digital media addiction, encompassing behavioral, emotional, and cognitive dimensions. Hierarchical moderated regression analyses revealed that active mediation significantly decreased addiction to both social media and short-form video among adolescents with high baseline addiction, though this effect reversed for those with low baseline addiction. Restrictive mediation showed a marginal negative effect on social media addiction only. Technical mediation failed to reduce gaming addiction but was associated with increased addictive symptoms among low-risk youth. Monitoring mediation demonstrated no main effect but had a moderation effect for short-form video, reducing addiction only in high-risk adolescents. These results highlight the need to consider baseline media addiction risk and mediation strategy when designing family mediation, and they advance understanding of how parental mediation processes differentially influence adolescent media addiction trajectories.
Authors:
Soyoung Kim, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea
Heejo Keum, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea
Jaeho Cho, University of California - Davis, United States
About the Presenter(s)
Soyoung Kim is currently working as a researcher at Global Convergence Content Research Center
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