Ouderlijke mediasocialisatie: hulpbron of handicap? : Een studie naar de langetermijneffecten van mediasocialisatie op het onderwijssucces van kinderen

Article in Dutch.

Summary
Media socialization: help or handicap? A study of the long term effects of parental media socialization
on children’s educational success
In this article we analyzed the long term effects of parental media socialization on educational success.
We employed information on 7838 individuals from 3083 families in the Netherlands to estimate
hierarchical models that distinguish between family-specific (socialization) effects and individual
effects. Our study reveals that parental media socialization plays a meaningful role in the
intergenerational transmission of social inequality. Whereas parental time spent on television viewing
actually harms a child’s educational career, parental reading intensity benefits school success.
The content of the parental media consumption plays a relevant role in the reproduction process as
well. A parental role model emphasizing highbrow reading enhances school success. Parents actually
restrict their children’s educational success by showing a strong preference for popular TV. Beside the
parental role model on media use we studied instructive media guidance performed by parents. Our
results showed that parent-child interaction on reading positively affects children’s educational career.

Mens & Maatschappij, 83 (4), 360-

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