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In attempt to mediate the negative impact of digital technology use on their children, parents apply an array of mediation strategies. Researchers differentiate between several types of mediation strategies, and the most often studied include: active, restrictive, and technical mediation, and monitoring (Livingstone et al., 2011). Based on family system perspective (Goodman, 1983), another aspect that is important to consider in parental media regulation are parental practices in general. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship of parental practices and parental mediation of children's digital technology use to children's negative on-line experiences. Participants are 1409 Croatian mothers and female guardians of children aged 8 to 13 years who completed a survey providing us with self- assessments of their parental practices (maternal support, maternal control and maternal compliance), and parental mediation strategies (active, restrictive and monitoring), as well as assessments of the rate of occurrence of their child's negative on-line experiences. Parental practices were assessed using the Parental Behavior Questionnaire (Keresteš et al., 2012), and parental mediation was assessed using 13 items adapted from previous studies (Nikken & Jansz, 2013 ; Nikken & Schols, 2015 ; Kotrla Topić et al., 2021). Children’s negative on-line experiences were assessed using a 5-item scale designed for the purpose of this study. The research presented here is a part of a larger project titled Child well-being in family context (CHILD-WELL), financed by Croatian Science Foundation. Only restrictive mediation is significantly related to children’s negative on-line experiences (r=-.05, p |
