This study was focused on a 5 years old children's story comprehension according to their media use time and mother's media parenting style. The subjects of this study were seventy 5 years old children, who attended in eight childcare center and kinde...
This study was focused on a 5 years old children's story comprehension according to their media use time and mother's media parenting style. The subjects of this study were seventy 5 years old children, who attended in eight childcare center and kindergartens, and their mothers in Seoul, Gyeong-gi, and Chung-buk.
To investigate the media use time of young children, this study used some questionnaires redeeming and revising from a research on the actual condition of young children’s media exposure and protective measure written by Lee Jung-lim, Do Nam-hee, and Oh You-jeong (2013) and a study on media use condition of children of eight years and under in America written by Rideout (2017). Moreover, to investigate their mother's media parenting style, this study used some appropriate questionnaires for the media use of young children adapting and revising from a study on Internet Parenting Style used by Kim Hyeon-jin and written by Valcke, Bonte, de Wever, & Rots (2010) through a review of one expert who majored in Child and family. To measure children's story comprehension, this study used some questionnaires from Jeong Jae-hoo and Kim Myeong-soon (2003) based on a study written by Leslie (1993), and Dickinson and Smith (1994). The questionnaire paper of this study, which is about the media use time of young children and their mothers’ media parenting style, was filled by their mother and after it, the researcher collected it by visiting institutions. Also, the researcher conducted a test about children's story comprehension personally by visiting institutions. At last, the collected data analyzed by the one-way analysis of variance and t-test with regard to subjects of inquiry.
To summarize it, the results of this study are as follows.
First, there was slightly little differences in children's story comprehension according to their media use time. Children who had shorter media self-use time had high scores in the factual remembrance, inference, and total story comprehension than children who had longer media self-use time. And children who had shorter media total-use time had high score in the factual remembrance than children who had longer media totla-use time. Nevertheless, there was a no meaningful difference in the children's story comprehension in regard with the media co-use time of children.
Second, there was a slightly little difference in the children's story comprehension according to their mother's media parenting style. Children who had higher communication level in mother’s media warmth had high scores in the factual remembrance, inference, and total story comprehension than children who had lower communication level in mother’s media warmth. However, there was a no meaningful difference in the children's story comprehension according to the mother’s media control.
As a result, there are meaningful differences in the children's story comprehension according to the media use time of young children and their mother's media parenting style.