Parental involvement, children's television viewing habits, and children's social skills: A multivariate-correlational study

• Main Author: Tan, Madelaine Mae M.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2009
• Subjects: Parent and child > Philippines; Parental influences > Philippines; Television and children > Philippines; Mass media and children > Philippines; Social skills in children > Philippines; Child development > Philippines; Psychology
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_bachelors/2337
• Institution: De La Salle University

A multivariate-correlational research design was employed to determine relationships between children's television viewing habits, degree of parental involvement in children's television viewing, and children's social skills. Children's television viewing habits are broken down into three variables, namely, amount of exposure to television, viewing privatization, and type of television shows preferred. Cluster sampling was used as sampling procedure. Respondents were 132 parent-child dyads residing in Metro Manila or Quezon City and belonging to middle and upper socio-economic levels. Children were 7 to 10 years old and were grades two, three, and four students of a private school in Manila. Three instruments were constructed for data gathering: (1) Parental Involvement for Child Television Usage Scale, (2) Children's Television Viewing Habits Survey, and (3) Children's Social Skills Survey. Significant correlations were found between the following variables: (1) Parental Involvement and Type of TV Shows Preferred (r=+0.24), (2) Type of TV Shows Preferred and Children's Social Skills (r=+0.31), and (3) Amount of Exposure to Television and Children's Social Skills (r=-0.15). Results of multiple regression analysis indicated that Type of Television Shows Preferred is the best predictor for Children's Social Skills.