scholarly journals Youth Online Media Use: Associations with Youth Demographics, Parental Monitoring, and Parent-Child Relationships

2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessie Rudi ◽  
Jodi Dworkin
Keyword(s):  
Relationship Quality ◽  
Youth Development ◽  
Parental Monitoring ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Family Relationship ◽  
Online Media ◽  
Youth Workers ◽  
Frequent User ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Parent Child

As online media has become an increasingly important part of youths’ daily lives, it is critical for the field to explore questions related to youth online media use in order to support youth workers, youth development practice and programming. Using a national sample of youth age 13-22 (N = 585), the current study explored demographic differences in youth online media use, and examined associations between youth demographics, parental monitoring, parent-child relationship quality, and likelihood of being a frequent user of online activities. Although youth reported being frequent users of online media, Internet use was not the same for all youth. Online media use differed significantly by youth age, gender, race, and family relationship quality. The findings remind the field to consider the young people we are working with and how they use online media in their daily lives.

scholarly journals New Rules of Engagement: How Adaptation To Online Media Changes Older Adults' Social Connectedness

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 182-197
Author(s):  
Eveline Hage ◽  
Marjolein van Offenbeek ◽  
Albert Boonstra
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Social Connectedness ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Adaptation Strategies ◽  
Online Media ◽  
Adaptation Process ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Norms And Values ◽  
Rapid Changes

Abstract Older adults often struggle to adjust to the rapid changes in the digitizing media landscape. In this article, we study, first, how 10 older adults adapt new online media into their daily lives and, by doing so, adjust to the changing “rules of engagement” that guide online-media use in their social surroundings. Second, we analyze how this adaptation process generates change in older adults' social connectedness. Results suggest that older adults' non-use of popular online media results in social exclusion. Enhancing their social connectedness, requires older adults to (partially) conform to new communication norms and values. Based on our findings, we propose three adaptation strategies that enhance both offline and online social connectedness.

scholarly journals The Impact of COVID‐19 on Adolescents’ Daily Lives: The Role of Parent–Child Relationship Quality

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 623-644 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie J. Janssens ◽  
Robin Achterhof ◽  
Ginette Lafit ◽  
Eva Bamps ◽  
Noëmi Hagemann ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Relationship Quality ◽  
Parent Child Relationship ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Child Relationship ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Parent Child

Cultural Differences in Social Media Usage and Beliefs and Attitudes towards Advertising on Social Media

2012 ◽  
pp. 123-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Kamal ◽  
Shu-Chuan Chu
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Culturally Diverse ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Online Media ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Media Usage ◽  
Beliefs And Attitudes

Social media use is quickly integrating into the daily lives of consumers in the Middle East, where a large number of users represent a variety of cultural milieu. This chapter examines differences between Arab and non-Arab social media users in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), with respect to usage, beliefs, and attitudes towards social media advertising. The chapter also examines managerial and theoretical implications for communication across culturally diverse audiences via online media.

A Framework for Studying Parental Socialization of Child and Adolescent Substance Use

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
John E. Donovan
Keyword(s):  
Substance Use ◽  
Relationship Quality ◽  
Parenting Practices ◽  
Parental Monitoring ◽  
Child And Adolescent ◽  
Adolescent Substance Use ◽  
Parental Socialization ◽  
Adolescent Substance ◽  
Parental Substance Use ◽  
Parent Child

This chapter presents a model of parental socialization that summarizes the interrelations among parental modeling of substance use, parent approval, parental monitoring and control, parent–child relationship quality, child cognitions, friends’ substance use, and child/adolescent substance use. Parental alcohol consumption, smoking, and drug use are significant predictors of child and adolescent drinking, smoking, and marijuana use. Parental substance use is associated with lower quality parenting and family management practices and lower quality relationships with offspring, both of which are associated with greater offspring substance use. Parental substance use, parental approval, parenting practices, and relationship quality are associated with adolescents’ affiliation with substance-using friends. Parental non-use, effective parenting practices, and good-quality parent–child relationships buffer the relation between friends’ modeling of substance use and adolescent offspring substance use. The model should facilitate the development of targeted tests of its utility for generating new research on the socialization of adolescent substance use.

scholarly journals Family relationships during emerging adulthood : longitudinal course and associations with emotional and academic adjustment

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Anna K. Lindell
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Emerging Adulthood ◽  
Relationship Quality ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Sibling Relationships ◽  
Academic Adjustment ◽  
Emotional Adjustment ◽  
Family Relationship ◽  
Financial Assistance ◽  
Parent Child

During emerging adulthood (ages 18 through the mid-twenties), parents and siblings become more peripheral in daily life compared to earlier in development. While family relationship quality often improves significantly during the initial transition to emerging adulthood, less is known about how these relationships function and impact development across this period, especially for college students who may remain closer to their families due to financial need. The present study, therefore, examined longitudinal changes in parent-child and sibling relationships from the first to the fourth years of college, as well as longitudinal associations between family relationship qualities and emotional adjustment and academic/vocational adjustment. Study 1 included first- and second-born college students (between-families), while Study 2 included first-born college students and their second-born adolescent siblings (within-families). Overall, parent-child relationship quality was mostly stable across emerging adulthood, while sibling relationships experienced dynamic changes in power structure, as well as increased communication and self-disclosure. Family relationships also had positive implications for emotional and academic adjustment, but receiving high levels of financial assistance from parents was detrimental for these outcomes. Future research should further investigate the implications of parental financial assistance, and ways the family can promote healthy autonomy development for emerging adults.

Youth Development in Europe

2009 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 372-375 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katariina Salmela-Aro ◽  
Ingrid Schoon
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Relationship Quality ◽  
Youth Development ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Transition To Adulthood ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Integrative Framework ◽  
Reciprocal Interactions ◽  
The Family ◽  
Key Players

A series of six papers on “Youth Development in Europe: Transitions and Identities” has now been published in the European Psychologist throughout 2008 and 2009. The papers aim to make a conceptual contribution to the increasingly important area of productive youth development by focusing on variations and changes in the transition to adulthood and emerging identities. The papers address different aspects of an integrative framework for the study of reciprocal multiple person-environment interactions shaping the pathways to adulthood in the contexts of the family, the school, and social relationships with peers and significant others. Interactions between these key players are shaped by their embeddedness in varied neighborhoods and communities, institutional regulations, and social policies, which in turn are influenced by the wider sociohistorical and cultural context. Young people are active agents, and their development is shaped through reciprocal interactions with these contexts; thus, the developing individual both influences and is influenced by those contexts. Relationship quality and engagement in interactions appears to be a fruitful avenue for a better understanding of how young people adjust to and tackle development to productive adulthood.

Longitudinal Increases in Parent–Child Relationship Quality and Sensation Seeking Interact to Increase Risk-Taking During the College Transition

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
João F. Guassi Moreira ◽  
Eva H. Telzer
Keyword(s):  
Relationship Quality ◽  
College Transition ◽  
Risk Taking ◽  
Sensation Seeking ◽  
Risky Behaviors ◽  
Parent Child Relationship ◽  
First Semester ◽  
Child Relationship ◽  
Risk Taking Behaviors ◽  
Parent Child

We tested two competing predictions of whether changes in parent–child relationship quality buffer or exacerbate the association between sensation-seeking and risk-taking behaviors as individuals gain more independence during the high school–college transition. In the current longitudinal study, 287 participants completed self-report measures of sensation seeking, risk-taking, and parent–child relationship quality with their parents prior to starting college and again during their first semester. Overall, students displayed increases in risky behaviors, which were predicted by sensation seeking. Changes in relationship quality moderated the association between sensation seeking and risk-taking, such that sensation seeking predicted higher risk-taking behaviors during the first semester of college, but only for those who reported increases in relationship quality across the college transition. These results suggest that increased relationship quality may have an inadvertent spillover effect by interacting with sensation seeking to increase risky behaviors.

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