Peer-reviewed article
Competence and safety of digital environment consumption by children and parents
Aiza Borisovna Neustroeva, L. D. Filippova ·
Summary
Written by AI, not yet AICS's view · claude-haiku-4-5-20251001This study assessed digital literacy and online safety knowledge among primary and secondary school children (grades 1-8) and their parents in Yakutsk, Russia. The researchers used an online questionnaire to measure competence in internet searching, computer skills, social media use, and online consumption habits. The study found that while children and parents had high levels of digital consumption, they showed low digital security knowledge and average digital competence overall, with significant gaps in safety awareness.
Key points
- Children and parents showed low digital security levels despite high digital consumption
- Average digital competence was identified across the studied population
- Large knowledge gaps were found in both children and parents regarding online safety
- Digital literacy assessment covered internet searching, computer skills, social media use, and multimedia content production
- The study demonstrates the need for digital competence development in the population
Limitations
The study only surveyed children and parents in Yakutsk and does not report on outcomes or the effectiveness of any interventions to improve digital safety. The document does not provide specific prevalence rates, demographic breakdowns by age, or longitudinal follow-up data.
Abstract
Today we are witnessing the active introduction of information technologies in all spheres of life, which has led to an increase and reproduction of the digitalisation risks. This requires the state to form a society with high digital literacy. The authors studied digital literacy of students of grades 1-8 of secondary schools in Yakutsk and their parents within assessing digital literacy level of the population in Russian regions, assessed their knowledge of security bases in network space. The main method of collecting information was an online questionnaire. In the course of the study the competence levels in the field of searching for information on the Internet through search engines, computer skills, the digital consumption indicators of children and parents, the social networks use, the goods and services consumption, the multimedia content production, etc., were defined. The authors noted a low digital security level and an average digital competence level in indicated population category having a quite high digital consumption level. The study showed that there are large gaps in the knowledge of both children, adolescents, and parents. Thus, the digital competences development relevance among population was demonstrated.