The Influences of the Sixth Graders' Parents' Internet Literacy and Parenting Style on Internet Parenting.

This study aims to explore the sixth grade students’ parents’ Internet literacy and parenting style on Internet parenting in Kaohsiung County in Taiwan. Upon stratified cluster sampling, a total of 822 parents from 34 classes in 28 schools participated in this study. The descriptive statistics and chi-square test were used to analyze the responses of the “Internet parenting questionnaire.” The findings of this study include: (1) the current situations of the sixth grade students’ parents’ behavior of Internet usage, Internet literacy, parenting style, and Internet parenting are explored and analyzed, and (2) there are significant correlations among the students’ parents’ behavior of Internet usage, parenting style, Internet literacy, and Internet parenting.

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