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Vol.15, No.3, August 2026. ISSN: 2217-8309 eISSN: 2217-8333
TEM Journal
TECHNOLOGY, EDUCATION, MANAGEMENT, INFORMATICS Association for Information Communication Technology Education and Science |
Exploring Parental Mediation in the Digital Age: Linking Literacy, Citizenship, and Attitudes
Mariana Momanu, Gabriela - Monica Assante, Ștefana Opria
© 2026 Gabriela - Monica Assante, published by UIKTEN. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License. (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
Citation Information: TEM Journal. Volume 15, Issue 3, Pages 2735-2743, ISSN 2217-8309, DOI: 10.18421/TEM153-60, August 2026.
Received: 30 August 2025.
Abstract:
Nowadays, children’s interaction with digital technologies has kept growing, thus knowledge of how family dynamics affect their online behaviour represents a crucial topic. The present paper explores parental digital mediation, and through a sequential framework, investigates how it supports children’s digital maturity and, hence, their growth as responsible digital citizens. This study proposes that in the development of children’s digital skills, technical, critical, and ethical, which in turn support online civility, parental digital mediation might have a role. To investigate how digital literacy, digital citizenship, and attitudes towards technology relate to the mediation strategies they use, the present study investigated 318 parents of children aged 6 to 11 years. Higher digital literacy and stronger citizenship values seem to correlate with parents who are more likely to use active and participatory mediation techniques. These findings highlight the need for intergenerational effects on digital citizenship and imply that ethical and civil digital participation is greatly promoted by both parental support and children’s competencies.
Keywords – Digital citizenship, digital literacy, mediation strategies, digital maturity, elementary school children. |
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