Parents' responses to cyberbullying effects: How third-person perception influences support for legislation and parental mediation strategies

Ho, Shirley S.; Lwin, May O.; Yee, Andrew; Sng, Jeremy R. H.; Chen, Liang

doi:10.1016/j.chb.2018.11.021

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“…Parental mediation of social media use was measured through two dimensions – active and restrictive mediation – that were revised based on prior literature (Valkenburg et al, 1999; Ho et al, 2019). Active mediation was measured by four items asking the participants how frequently their parents explained and advised their social media use (“not at all/very frequently,” 7-point scale), with items such as “Telling me to stop any experience on social media if I feel uncomfortable or scared”; Similarly, restrictive mediation was measured by asking the participants how frequently their parents set rules and limitations regarding their social media activities, with items such as “Setting rules regarding my access to social media, such as Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, WhatsApp, etc.”…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Parental mediation of adolescents’ media consumption has been found to mitigate some of the adverse effects of the media on them (e.g., Schooler et al, 2006; Collier et al, 2016). Thus, we introduce a third entity who plays an indispensable role in adolescents’ general socialization with social media – parents (e.g., Fardouly et al, 2018; Ho et al, 2019). We elaborate on the role of parental mediation of adolescents’ social media in the relationship between influencers and adolescent followers below.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Fancying the New Rich and Famous? Explicating the Roles of Influencer Content, Credibility, and Parental Mediation in Adolescents’ Parasocial Relationship, Materialism, and Purchase Intentions

2019

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While social media influencers are gleaning increasing trust and investment from brands, advertisers, and followers, insights on the role of influencers in adolescents’ relationship formation and consumption behaviors are still rare. Drawing on the literatures of influencer content value, influencer credibility, parental mediation, and parasocial relationship (PSR), this study proposed a conceptual model that expounds the appeal of influencers among adolescents. To test the model, we administered an online survey – recruited in proportion to demographic quotas (i.e., age, gender and ethnicity) – among 500 United States adolescents (aged 10- to 19-years old) via Qualtrics panel. Results revealed that, the entertainment value of influencer-generated content, influencer expertise, trustworthiness, attractiveness, and followers’ perceived similarity to their favorite influencers, are positively related to the perceived PSR between adolescent followers and their favorite influencers, which in turn, are associated with adolescents’ materialistic views and purchase intentions. We also explored the role of parental mediation of adolescents’ social media use in their PSR with influencers. Results indicate that, neither active mediation nor restrictive mediation is related to the PSR between adolescents and influencers. Active mediation is negatively associated with adolescents’ materialism, whereas restrictive mediation is positively related to adolescents’ purchase intentions toward influencer-promoted products. This study proposed and tested a comprehensive conceptual model that accounts for the role of influencers in adolescent followers’ materialism and purchase intentions. This study yields three major theoretical contributions. First, it adopts and applies the concept of PSR from the literature of media psychology to explicate influencers’ appeal among adolescents, which lays a theoretical foundation for future research on the impact of influencers. Second, it advances the current literature on social media influencers by specifying key contributing factors for the development of adolescents’ PSR with influencers. Lastly, it explores the roles of the two facets of parental mediation – active and restrictive mediation – in the appeal of influencers among adolescents, which offers directions for future research of parental mediation in the influencer context.

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Section: Factors In the Conceptual Modelmentioning

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Fancying the New Rich and Famous? Explicating the Roles of Influencer Content, Credibility, and Parental Mediation in Adolescents’ Parasocial Relationship, Materialism, and Purchase Intentions

2019

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“…Parents generally apply the same self-serving biases to their children as they do to themselves. For example, they believe that other children (relative to their own) will be more harmed by exposure to media violence (Hoffner & Buchanan, 2002), teen dramas (Tsfati, Ribak, & Cohen, 2005), sexual media (Nathanson, Eveland, Park, & Paul, 2002), advertising (Meirick, Sims, Gilchrist, & Croucher, 2009), and cyberbullying (Ho, Lwin, Yee, Sng, & Chen, 2019). However, there is some indication that these patterns shift when examined with more desirable outcomes.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…However, conclusions from this work are often counterintuitive. For example, Ho et al (2019) found that third-person perceptions about the harmful effects of cyberbulling positively predicted parents' use of both active and restrictive mediation strategies with their own children, but negatively predicted parents' support for anti-cyberbullying legislation. Relatedly, Hoffner and Buchanon (2002) found that parents' third-person perceptions about the influence of media violence increased their tendency to mediate that material with their own children but decreased their support for regulating that material.…”

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I’ve Got a Girl Crush: Parents’ Responses to Stories about Sexuality in Children’s Television

McAndrew¹,

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2021

Journal of Homosexuality

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“…Parental support protects youth from bullying and cyberbullying victimization (Wang et al 2009) and perpetration (Shetgiri et al 2012), as well as the negative consequences of bullying and cyberbullying involvement (Conners-Burrow et al 2009). It is consequently concerning that parents lack knowledge of their adolescent children's online behavior and generally underestimate the extent of youth's cyberbullying involvement (Dehue et al 2008;Heiman and Olenik-Shemesh 2017;Ho et al 2019;Symons et al 2017). Teacher-student relationships are a central element of the social ecology of schools.…”

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Benchmarks and Bellwethers in Cyberbullying: the Relational Process of Telling

Mishna

Birze

Greenblatt

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Int Journal of Bullying Prevention

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There is a lack of research that examines and compares the perspectives of students and their parents and teachers with respect to cyberbullying. Qualitative data were drawn from a mixed methods study on cyberbullying among students in grades 4, 7, and 10, in a large urban school board. Interviews with 13 students and their parents and teachers took place during year one and with students and parents in year three. Data analysis occurred through an ongoing process of open, axial, and selective coding. Overall, the youth and adults demonstrated similar understanding of cyberbullying. It emerged, however, that for the youth participants, telling about their cyberbullying experiences was a relational process. In contrast, the adult participants made little mention of these relational aspects in their explanations. We characterize this relational process as students' use of benchmarks (point of reference) and bellwethers (someone or something that is used as a predictor), throughout their decision-making (both implicit and explicit). It is important that this relational process of telling, for example, deciding whether and to whom to disclose, informs education and intervention strategies. Keywords Cyberbullying. Relational aspects of cyberbullying. Cyberbullying perspectives of youth and adults. Understanding cyberbullying. Cyberbullying disclosure

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Parents' responses to cyberbullying effects: How third-person perception influences support for legislation and parental mediation strategies

Cited by 16 publications

References 43 publications

Fancying the New Rich and Famous? Explicating the Roles of Influencer Content, Credibility, and Parental Mediation in Adolescents’ Parasocial Relationship, Materialism, and Purchase Intentions

Fancying the New Rich and Famous? Explicating the Roles of Influencer Content, Credibility, and Parental Mediation in Adolescents’ Parasocial Relationship, Materialism, and Purchase Intentions

I’ve Got a Girl Crush: Parents’ Responses to Stories about Sexuality in Children’s Television

Benchmarks and Bellwethers in Cyberbullying: the Relational Process of Telling

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