@article{ref1,
title="Does parental mediation of media influence child outcomes? A meta-analysis on media time, aggression, substance use, and sexual behavior",
journal="Developmental psychology",
year="2016",
author="Collier, Kevin M. and Coyne, Sarah M. and Rasmussen, Eric E. and Hawkins, Alan J. and Padilla-Walker, Laura M. and Erickson, Sage E. and Memmott-Elison, Madison K.",
volume="52",
number="5",
pages="798-812",
abstract="The current study examined how parental mediation of media (restrictive mediation, active mediation, and coviewing) influenced child outcomes. Three meta-analyses, 1 for each type of mediation, were conducted on a total of 57 studies. Each analysis assessed the effectiveness of parental mediation on 4 pertinent child outcomes: media use, aggression, substance use, and sexual behavior. The overall results indicated small, but significant relationships between child outcomes and restrictive mediation (r+ = -.06), and coviewing (r+ =.09). Overall active mediation was nonsignificant, though active mediation was individually related to lower levels of aggression (r+ = -.08), sexual behavior (r+ = -.06), and substance use (r+ = -.11). This analysis revealed that parents may have the ability to mitigate some of the adverse effects of the media by using certain mediation strategies. Overall, a cooperative effort from the communication and parenting fields is necessary for a comprehensive analysis of parental mediation as well as a disentanglement of the various parental mediation measures. (PsycINFO Database Record<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0012-1649",
doi="10.1037/dev0000108",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/dev0000108"
}