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Article: College-educated mothers' ideas about television and their active mediation of viewing by three- to five-year-old children: Japan and the U.S.A.
- Article from:
- Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media
- Article date:
- June 22, 2000
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This study concerned the thinking of mothers in the United States and Japan, in relation to the television viewing of their preschool children. The following was our rationale for conducting research on active mediation and television viewing issues in the preschool years from a comparative approach.
Active Mediation
Active parental mediation of the television viewing of their children is an important phenomenon, because it has been shown to facilitate children's understanding of television as well as children's cognitive and perceptual development (Dorr, Kovaric, & Doubleday, 1989; Watkins, Huston-Stein, & Wright et al., 1980). Active mediation is ...