EU EB-PARENTING · Ethnicity-Based Parenting for Child’s Online Safety/Risks
Horizon 2020 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
- Duration
- 2021-09-27 → 2023-09-26
- EU contribution
- €202,159
- Participants
- 1
- Scheme
- MSCA-IF
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Results in brief
Ethnicity-Based Parenting for Child’s Online Safety/Risks
This Marie Skłodowska Curie Action – Individual Fellowship (MSCA-IF), “Ethnicity-Based Parenting for the Child’s Online Safety/Risks,” has focused on the issue of parenting for children’s Internet use among ethnic majorities and minority populations in Europe. The project aimed to develop a novel theoretical framework, conceptual model, and measurement scale of parenting for children’s Internet use. The results can inform European family policies and parenting support services. The project has achieved its essential objectives by proposing: • a bi-factor conceptualization of parental mediation • a transactional theoretical framework of parenting for children’s Internet use. • content validation of parental mediation scales, • reliability and construct validity estimation of parental mediation, parental awareness, and parental self-efficacy scales Another notable achievement in collaboration with the Anti-Bullying Centre at Dublin City University (DCU) is the development of anti-bullying self-efficacy scales and models. These can be used for measuring the effectiveness of a school anti-bullying program in promoting five steps that victims and bystanders take against online and offline bullying behaviours. The results have been disseminated through presentations at workshops and conferences, and publications in peer-reviewed open access journals. The findings can be used by researchers, educators, and policymakers to understand transactional characteristics of parental awareness, mediation strategies, and self-efficacy in children’s Internet use. Transaction means the transformation of and being transformed by interactions between parent-child-Internet-risk characteristics. The measurement scales can be applied by researchers and practitioners in their work.
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Project objective
Ethnic vulnerability to risk factors, such as stigmatisation, is inhibitory to parental self-efficacy, either inflating or deflating their confidence in how much they are aware of their child’s online safety/risks. Confident parents tend to underestimate how frequently their child has experienced online risks, such as a perpetrator or victim of cyberbullying. In contrast, unconfident parents tend to overestimate it. However, to date, mainstream databases (e.g., Web of Science, Scopus, EBSCO, or ProQuest) show no empirical evidence as a multivariate statistical analysis of the negative association between the self-efficacy and risk awareness among ethnic minority parents in Europe. Although there is a large dataset of EU Kids Online survey (2018) that provides multi-national and multi-ethnic data (e.g., self-reported use of common language at home) about children and adolescents’ online safety/risks in 19 European countries, it has yet to be used for the statistical analysis of parenting for child’s online-safety among ethnic minorities. One reason is the lacked focus on cross-national and -ethnic validation of scales that can measure national and ethnic variations in the parental self-efficacy and awareness; another reason is the lack of theoretical and conceptual models6 applicable to the cross-national and -ethnic comparison. Relying on the EU Kids online data, the proposed project (entitled as EU EB-PARENTING - Ethnicity-Based Parenting for Child’s Online Safety/Risks) will bridge this research gap in an innovative way by proposing a novel (a) theoretical framework, (b) conceptual model, and (c) measurement scale of ethnicity-based parenting for child’s online safety/risks, especially among ethnic minorities in Europe. Given that an outstanding ethnic difference is observable in gender roles, the novelty further ensues from taking into account interaction effects of parent-child gender differences on the risk awareness, mediation, and self-efficacy.
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Participants
- UNIVERSITETET I OSLO · OsloCoordinatorNorway
Links
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- DOI: 10.3030/101026567
- https://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/research/projects/mediation/index.html
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