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1Pediatric Nursing Department, Dokuz Eylul University Health Sciences Institute, Izmir, Türkiye.
Abstract:
In today's world, in which technology has become an inseparable part of daily life, the use of digital technology is increasingly common among children. It is important to investigate the topic of digital technology use, which can affect children's social, emotional, psychological, mental, and physical development in many ways, as well as the reasons that can influence the characteristics they should possess. This study was conducted to evaluate the effect of parents' digital awareness on their digital attitude behaviors. This study was descriptive, cross-sectional and correlational. The study was conducted with parents (n = 545) Descriptive Information Form, Digital Parenting Awareness Scale and Digital Parenting Attitude Scale were used as data collection tools in the study. It was determined that there was a strong and negatively significant relationship between the mean total scores of the parents' digital attitude behaviors and digital neglect (r = -0.529, p < .001), strong negative significant relationship (r = -0.643, p < .001) between the mean scores of parents' digital attitude behaviors and negative modeling sub-dimension (r = -0.643, p < .001). It was determined that there was a strong negative significant relationship between parents' digital attitude behaviors and the condition of being a negative role model, a moderate negative significant relationship with the condition of digital neglect, a moderate positive significant relationship with the condition of efficient use, and a moderate positive significant relationship with the condition of risk protection.
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