Media Mediation And Conscious Awareness Of Mothers In Preschool Children's Use Of Media Tools Investigation

Year 2023, , 659 - 670, 13.07.2023

Büşra Yıldırım , İsa Kaya

https://doi.org/10.24331/ijere.1248546

Abstract

This study was conducted to study the conscious awareness of mothers and media mediation roles of preschool children in the use of media tools. The research was done with a relational scan model. The method of research is quantitative research. The study group was created by the mother of 371 children who continued pre-school education in 2020-2021 Education periods. The data is collected using the Demographic Information Form, conscious Awareness Scale and early Childhood Parental Media Intermediation Scale’. The analysis of the data uses “pearson correlation analysis” and “simple regression analysis”.As a result of the research, there is a meaningful relationship between the conscious awareness of mothers and their subdimensions of media mediation with negative-directional low/medium strength, while conscious awareness 18% of the active interpreter sub-size of media mediation roles, 2% of the restrictor sub-size, 13% of the restrictor restrictor sub-size, 4% of the active limiter sub-size, 14% of the supporting sub-size, it has been found to be 19% of the active supporting sub-size.

Keywords

Early childhood, media mediation, conscious awareness

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