ArticleAuthors: Seon-Kyoung An; Doohwang Lee (2010)
This study proposed and tested an integrated model of parental mediation involving family communication, parental mediation styles, children’s perceptions of televised realities and the actual world, and perceptions of the negative effects of television viewing. A total of 348 Korean adolescents participated in a nationwide survey. The findings demonstrated that parental, instructive media-tion, in combination with open family communication, increased not only children’s perceived disparity between televised realities and the actual world, but also children’s perceptions of the potentially negative effects of television.
Restrictive parental mediation styles were also found to mediat... 
