Towards more active parenting: Trends in parental mediation of children's internet use in European countries

This study aimed at exploring trends in parental mediation that have unravelled over eight years' time in 12 European countries. Relying on the EU Kids Online survey, the study focused on 11-16-year-old children's perceptions of parental mediation strategies and the main changes therein between the data collection waves of 2010 and 2018. The analysis demonstrated that active mediation has seen a significant increase in several European countries. While cross-cultural disparities remain large, restrictive mediation has decreased, indicating that the focus of parental strategies is moving away from setting rules and restrictions towards guiding children in their internet use.