This study focuses on the external factors helping children’s ability to control the usage of video media by examining the positive influence of the interactions between age-appropiate program viewing and the ways of educational viewing. For the ana...
This study focuses on the external factors helping children’s ability to control the usage of video media by examining the positive influence of the interactions between age-appropiate program viewing and the ways of educational viewing. For the analysis, a survey was conducted on 1,016 parents with children aged 5 to 7. The results show that when the parents’ experience in media viewing education interacts with the children’s viewing of age-appropriate programs, it positively influences the children's ability to control their video media usage. Also, this study finds that the interaction between age-appropriate program viewing and viewing the education program can help the children control their video media viewing. The findings of this study indicate that encouraging children to watch programs appropriate for their age with indirect guidance of parents would be effective in achieving autonomous media usage by children. It is also implied that watching educational programs according to the target age group would lead the children to use media independently. This study is meaningful in that it focuses on the educational impacts letting children internalize desirable viewing habits in the circumstance where children and media are inseparably associated.