Parental Digital Mediation and Adolescent Behavioural Health Environments in High-Income Households

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10.2991/978-2-38476-615-4_22How to use a DOI?

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Parental Digital Mediation; Adolescent Behavioural Health; Digital Parenting; High-Income Households; Preventive Mental Health; Family Systems; Digital Supervision

Abstract

Adolescence is increasingly shaped by digitally mediated environments that influence behavioural regulation, emotional processing, and identity formation. While socioeconomic disadvantage has traditionally been linked to behavioural vulnerability, emerging evidence suggests that adolescents in high-income households also face unique digital and psychosocial risks. The present research communication talks about the contextual protective factors, such as parental digital mediation behaviours, that characterise the behavioural health settings of adolescents within the family-related affluent settings. They used a quantitative cross-sectional descriptive-correlational design. The information was gathered from 350 parents of adolescents from high-income families using a structured questionnaire. Some of the statistical tests that were run included: descriptive statistics, chi-square tests, Pearson correlation, Cochrans Q test and multiple regression analysis. Results suggest that there is a positive correlation between parent-child communication and adoption of technology supervision strategies (r = .133, p = .013). Monitoring practices and parental modelling of responsible digital behaviour have a strong relationship (r = .141, p = .008). The regression analysis showed that, as a group, the digital mediation practices were predictors of behavioural health environments that explained a small, but statistically significant percentage of variance (R 2 = .042, p = .002). Compared to the relatively popular communication practice, more formalised digital strategies and formal technical control were less prevalent. The results bring the digital mediation research into the rich context, and disprove the perception of financial well-being as the natural buffer against behavioural vulnerability in adolescents. The paper places a stress on the worth of multifaceted, family-based forms of secondary prevention, which encompasses integration of professional and informal forms of relational lineage activity and systematic informational guidance with the impact of computers.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Alka Sharma
AU  - Monica Thongam Nakra
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/09/15
TI  - Parental Digital Mediation and Adolescent Behavioural Health Environments in High-Income Households
BT  - Proceedings of the Anubhuti 4.0: Discourses in Indian Knowledge Systems – Pathways of Culture, Inclusion, and Sustainability (ICIKS 2026)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 287
EP  - 309
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-615-4_22
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-615-4_22
ID  - Sharma2026
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