Peer-reviewed article
Children and parents in the information space: Interaction, risks and safety strategies
Alina L. Yanak ·
Summary
Written by AI, not yet AICS's view · claude-haiku-4-5-20251001This research examines how parents and children interact with digital technology and the internet, identifying risks and safety strategies. The study used focus groups with parents, surveys of adolescents and parents about media use, and analysis of internet safety legislation. The researchers found problems including gadget addiction, conflicts between parents and children, weakening parental oversight, and harmful online content. The study categorizes safety strategies into external (institutional) and internal (family-based) approaches, with methods that restrict access, train children, or redirect behavior.
Key points
- Main risks identified: gadget and internet addiction, parent-child conflict, decreasing parental control and authority, dangerous online content
- Research included 6 focus groups with parents, 303 adolescent surveys, and 326 parent surveys
- Safety strategies are classified as external (institutional) or internal (intrafamily, intrapersonal)
- Three types of safety approaches identified: restricting, training, and replacing strategies
- Consequences of harmful content consumption on parent-child relationships were documented
Limitations
The document does not specify which country or countries were studied, and does not provide detailed findings on the effectiveness of different safety strategies or their outcomes for children's well-being. The sample sizes and geographic scope limit generalisability.
Abstract
The article is devoted to the analysis of the author’s research: focus groups with parents of children gadget users with access to the Internet (n = 6), the questionnaire survey among adolescents (n = 303) and parents (n = 326) about media consumption, and information security legislation. The new trends and risks in the development of modern child-parent relationships: gadget and Internet addiction, conflicts, decreasing parental control and authority, alternative interaction forms, dangerous content and the consequences of its consumption were identified. The research objectives are to identify the main areas and problems of interaction between parents and children with IT-technology products, zones and consequences of media influence on the parent-child relations and classification of strategies for the Internet safety of children. As a result, the main types of strategies for prevention and liquidation online risks: external (institutional) and internal (intrafamily, intrapersonal), restricting, training and replacing are typologized and presented.