Promoting digital wellness through parental involvement in early childhood
Thesis (MEdPsych)--Stellenbosch University, 2024.
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| author | Van Schalkwyk, Rene |
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| spelling | oai:scholar.sun.ac.za:10019.1/130661 Promoting digital wellness through parental involvement in early childhood Van Schalkwyk, Rene Dreyer, Lorna Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Education. Dept. of Educational Psychology. Technology -- Social aspects Parent participation -- Education (Early childhood) Medicine -- Electronic information resources Medical informatics Telecommunication in medicine UCTD Thesis (MEdPsych)--Stellenbosch University, 2024. ENGLISH ABSTRACT: current generation of young individuals is growing up in a society that is vastly different from that of their parents. Screens have become an integral part of daily life (Digital Wellness Lab, 2022). Digital wellness, which refers to the healthy interaction of individuals with technology in a technologically driven world, encompasses physical, emotional, and social well-being (Kraft, 2020). The main objective of the study was to understand how parental involvement regarding screen time relates to the digital wellness of their children in early childhood. It included deeper insight into the reasons for allowing screen time, how parents regulated screen time usage and the security of digital media to explore how children’s social and emotional well-being were being met by means of digital wellness. This study utilised a basic qualitative research approach grounded in an interpretivist paradigm. An exploratory case study was conducted involving six participants who were selected through purposive sampling. Data-collection techniques included a qualitative questionnaire to gather demographic and background information and individual semi-structured interviews that were guided by themes emerging from the data collected through the questionnaire. Qualitative thematic content analysis was applied to analyse and interpret the data. The findings indicate that the most prevalent parenting style among the participants was digital mentorship. The study further revealed that parental guidance on screen time had a positive effect in certain areas, but there were several areas where parental guidance fell short in promoting digital wellness in their children. This research contributes to the growing body of literature that examines the effect of parental guidance on screen time on digital wellness during early childhood. AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die huidige generasie jong individue word groot in ʼn samelewing wat hemelsbreed verskil van dié van hul ouers. Skerms het ʼn integrale deel van die daaglikse lewe geword (Digital Wellness Lab, 2022). Digitale welstand, wat verwys na die gesonde interaksie van individue met tegnologie in ʼn tegnologies gedrewe wêreld, sluit fisiese, emosionele en sosiale welstand in (Kraft, 2020). Die hoofdoel van die studie was om te verstaan hoe ouerbetrokkenheid rakende skermtyd verband hou met die digitale welstand van hul kinders in vroeë kinderjare. Dit het dieper insig ingesluit in die redes waarom skermtyd toegelaat word, hoe ouers die gebruik van skermtyd reguleer en die sekuriteit van digitale media om te ondersoek hoe kinders se sosiale en emosionele welstand deur middel van digitale welstand bevredig word. Hierdie studie maak gebruik van ʼn basiese kwalitatiewe navorsingsbenadering wat in ʼn interpretivistiese paradigma gegrond is. ʼn Verkennende gevallestudie is uitgevoer met ses deelnemers wat deur doelgerigte steekproefneming geselekteer is. Data-insamelingstegnieke het ʼn kwalitatiewe vraelys om demografiese en agtergrondinligting in te samel en individuele semi-gestruktureerde onderhoude wat gelei is deur temas wat voortspruit uit die data wat deur die vraelys ingesamel is, ingesluit. Kwalitatiewe tematiese ontleding van die inhoud is toegepas om die data te ontleed en te vertolk. Die bevindinge dui daarop dat die mees algemene ouerskapstyl onder die deelnemers digitale mentorskap was. Die studie het verder aan die lig gebring dat ouerleiding oor skermtyd ʼn positiewe impak in sekere areas gehad het, maar daar is verskeie gebiede waar ouerleiding te kort skiet in die bevordering van digitale welstand by hul kinders. Hierdie navorsing dra by tot die groeiende hoeveelheid literatuur wat die impak van ouerleiding op skermtyd tydens vroeë kinderjare op digitale welstand ondersoek. Masters 2024-02-15T15:03:30Z 2024-04-27T01:44:06Z 2024-02-15T15:03:30Z 2024-04-27T01:44:06Z 2024-03 Thesis en Stellenbosch University xi, 119 pages : illustrations application/pdf Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University |
| spellingShingle | Technology -- Social aspects Parent participation -- Education (Early childhood) Medicine -- Electronic information resources Medical informatics Telecommunication in medicine UCTD Van Schalkwyk, Rene Promoting digital wellness through parental involvement in early childhood |
| title | Promoting digital wellness through parental involvement in early childhood |
| title_full | Promoting digital wellness through parental involvement in early childhood |
| title_fullStr | Promoting digital wellness through parental involvement in early childhood |
| title_full_unstemmed | Promoting digital wellness through parental involvement in early childhood |
| title_short | Promoting digital wellness through parental involvement in early childhood |
| title_sort | promoting digital wellness through parental involvement in early childhood |
| topic | Technology -- Social aspects Parent participation -- Education (Early childhood) Medicine -- Electronic information resources Medical informatics Telecommunication in medicine UCTD |
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