Parental Mediation Of Adolescent Media Use And Demographic Factors As Predictors Of Kenyan High School Students Exposure To Sexual Content In Television
Keywords
motivations; parental media monitoring; television; viewing context
Abstract
Research in Western nations suggests that parents involvement in their children's media use can make a difference in how adolescents select, process and respond to sexual television messages. Little or no published research has investigated this issue in sub-Saharan Africa, even though adolescents and young adults remain among the groups at highest risk for HIV transmission. This study investigated the relationship between Kenyan adolescents level of exposure to sexual television content and their parents mediation of their television use. A cluster sample of 427 Nairobi public high school students was surveyed regarding parental mediation of their media use and their intake of sexual television content. Co-viewing with opposite sex friends was associated with higher intake of sexual TV content. This relationship was stronger among boarding school students than among day school students. Parental mediation and co-viewing variables predicted three times as much variance among boarding than among day school students.
Publication Date
3-25-2016
Publication Title
African Journal of AIDS Research
Volume
15
Issue
1
Number of Pages
1-8
Document Type
Article
Personal Identifier
scopus
DOI Link
https://doi.org/10.2989/16085906.2015.1131727
Copyright Status
Unknown
Socpus ID
84962359543 (Scopus)
Source API URL
https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84962359543
STARS Citation
Ngula, Kyalo Wa; Mberia, Hellen K.; and Miller, Ann Neville, "Parental Mediation Of Adolescent Media Use And Demographic Factors As Predictors Of Kenyan High School Students Exposure To Sexual Content In Television" (2016). Scopus Export 2015-2019. 2224.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/scopus2015/2224