Validity and Reliability Study of Parental Mediation for Internet Usage Scale Adolescent and Parent Forms in the Turkish Sample

Year 2019, Volume: 10 Issue: 2, 117 - 132, 28.06.2019

Derya Atalan Ergin , Emine Gül Kapçı

https://doi.org/10.21031/epod.457218

Cited By: 5

Abstract

Parental mediation includes parents’
attitudes and behaviors about their child’s media using. Early parental
mediation researches have been conducted on television. Nowadays, parental
mediation researches concentrate on the Internet. The main purpose of this
study is to develop assessment forms that evaluate parental mediation
strategies in respect of Internet Usage. In this study, a scale has been
developed including parent and adolescent forms, as the strategies used by
parents could be examined based on both parents and their children’s
self-report. A representative sample consisting of a total of 728 parents
participated in the parent form study in Mamak, Ankara (mother n=456; father
n=272). A total of 718 adolescents (female n=371; male n=345) aged 11- 14 years
old studying 6.-8. grades in a secondary school in Mamak participated in the
adolescent form study. Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and conformity factor
analysis (CFA) were applied for the purpose of testing construct validity of
the forms. EFA indicated that a two-factor model had enough fit for parent form
and a three-factor model was suggested for adolescent form.  Factors of parent form were named as
“control/ restriction” and “active mediation”, factors of adolescent form were
named as “control/ restriction”, “active mediation” and “monitoring”. These
factors have explained 63.7% and 61.7% variance on parent and adolescent
scales, respectively. The results of CFA have revealed appropriateness of the
factor structure (Parent form: χ²/sd=2.08, RMSEA= .06, GFI: .91, AGFI: .88,
SRMR: .03, NFI: .98, NNFI:.99, CFI:.99; Adolescent form: χ²/sd=2.94, RMSEA=
.07, GFI: .88, AGFI: .84, SRMR: .04, NFI: .98, NNFI:.98, CFI:.99). Assessed
with Cronbach Alfa internal consistency reliabilities were calculated as .95
for both parent and adolescent forms. Test-retest reliabilities were .87 and
.82 for parent and adolescent forms, respectively. These results have pointed
out that both forms have the value of use in research on the evaluation of
parental mediation on the Internet usage.

Keywords

Parental mediation, parent, adolescence, scale development

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