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It includes the attitudes and behaviors of the grandparents about the use of the media. At the beginning, the work was done on television. In recent years, research has been focused on the use of the Internet. The main objective of this study is to develop measurement tools that evaluate the mediation strategies they follow in the Internet use. The strategies used by grandparents can be evaluated on the basis of the reports of both grandparents and their children, and in this study two tools have been developed, the grandparents and adolescent forms. Anababa form work was attended by 728 natives from the Mamak district of Ankara (mother n=456; father n=272). A total of 716 teenagers (women n=371; men n=345) continued to the 6-8 classes of a secondary school in Mamak, between the ages of 11-14 years, participated in the study. Average Factor Analysis (AFA) and Verifying Factor Analysis (DFA) are conducted to assess the structural validity of measurements. The AFA results in the identification of two factors relating to the parent form, "Control/restriction" called "Active Mediation" and three factors relating to the adolescent form called "Control/restriction", "Active Mediation" and "Tracking". These factors described the variance’s 63.7% and 61.7% for the parent and adolescent scales, respectively. DFA results supported the conformity of the factor structure (Anababa form: χ2/sd=2.08, RMSEA= .06, GFI: .91, AGFI: .88, SRMR: .03, NFI: .98, NNFI:.99, CFI:. 99; Adolescent form: χ2/sd=2.94, RMSEA= .07, GFI: .88, AGFI: .84, SRMR: .04, NFI: .98, NNFI:.98, CFI:.99). The internal consistency reliability assessed by Cronbach Alfa is also calculated as .95 for both parent and adolescent forms. The test-recurrent test reliability is .87 and .82 for the Anababa and Adolescent scales. These findings indicate that both forms are useful in studies aimed at evaluating maternity through internet use.

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Parental mediation includes parents’ attitudes and behaviors about their child’s media using. Early parental mediation researches have been conducted on television. Nowadays, parental mediation researches concentrate on the Internet. The main purpose of this study is to develop assessment forms that evaluate parental mediation strategies in respect of Internet Usage. In this study, a scale has been developed including parent and adolescent forms, as the strategies used by parents could be examined based on both parents and their children’s self-report. A representative sample consisting of a total of 728 parents participated in the parent form study in Mamak, Ankara (mother n=456; father n=272). A total of 718 adolescents (female n=371; male n=345) aged 11- 14 years old studying 6.-8. grades in a secondary school in Mamak participated in the adolescent form study. Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and conformity factor analysis (CFA) were applied for the purpose of testing construct validity of the forms. EFA indicated that a two-factor model had enough fit for parent form and a three-factor model was suggested for adolescent form.  Factors of parent form were named as “control/ restriction” and “active mediation”, factors of adolescent form were named as “control/ restriction”, “active mediation” and “monitoring”. These factors have explained 63.7% and 61.7% variance on parent and adolescent scales, respectively. The results of CFA have revealed appropriateness of the factor structure (Parent form: χ²/sd=2.08, RMSEA= .06, GFI: .91, AGFI: .88, SRMR: .03, NFI: .98, NNFI:.99, CFI:.99; Adolescent form: χ²/sd=2.94, RMSEA= .07, GFI: .88, AGFI: .84, SRMR: .04, NFI: .98, NNFI:.98, CFI:.99). Assessed with Cronbach Alfa internal consistency reliabilities were calculated as .95 for both parent and adolescent forms. Test-retest reliabilities were .87 and .82 for parent and adolescent forms, respectively. These results have pointed out that both forms have the value of use in research on the evaluation of parental mediation on the Internet usage.

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