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The Effect of Parental Demographics on Parental Assessment of Adolescent Internet Addiction

The Effect of Parental Demographics on Parental Assessment of Adolescent Internet Addiction

Chiho Ok, Jisun Lim
Copyright: © 2019 |Pages: 13
ISBN13: 9781522579090|ISBN10: 1522579095|EISBN13: 9781522579106
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-7909-0.ch020
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Ok, Chiho, and Jisun Lim. "The Effect of Parental Demographics on Parental Assessment of Adolescent Internet Addiction." Multigenerational Online Behavior and Media Use: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, edited by Information Resources Management Association, IGI Global, 2019, pp. 377-389. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-7909-0.ch020

APA

Ok, C. & Lim, J. (2019). The Effect of Parental Demographics on Parental Assessment of Adolescent Internet Addiction. In I. Management Association (Ed.), Multigenerational Online Behavior and Media Use: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications (pp. 377-389). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-7909-0.ch020

Chicago

Ok, Chiho, and Jisun Lim. "The Effect of Parental Demographics on Parental Assessment of Adolescent Internet Addiction." In Multigenerational Online Behavior and Media Use: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, edited by Information Resources Management Association, 377-389. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2019. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-7909-0.ch020

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Abstract

This article investigates how adolescent Internet addiction is assessed by parents based on children's Internet use time and parental demographic characteristics. The authors measured children's level of Internet addiction based on Young's scale evaluated by their parents to mitigate the social desirability bias in self-reported surveys when children evaluate themselves. Based on Korean General Social Survey data, which is nationally representative in South Korea, they analyzed 219 individuals and found that as the time of Internet use of children increased, the level of Internet addiction evaluated by parents increased. In addition, this relationship was moderated by parental demographic characteristics such that higher age, lower educational attainment, and higher Internet use time tend to decrease the parental evaluation of their children's Internet addiction. Results suggest that policies and programs related to children's Internet addiction should be focused more on parents from specific demographic groups.

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