Parenting in the Digital Age: Exploring Mediation Strategies and Styles Among Parents of School Children in Kerala

To better understand the interaction between different parenting types—enabler, limiter, and mentor—and their related mediation techniques—active, co-viewing, and restrictive—this study looks at digital parenting styles (DPS) and digital parental mediation strategies (DPM) in Kerala. The research, which makes use of online and offline questionnaires conducted in districts located in northern, central, and southern Kerala, indicates that limiter parents employ restrictive mediation, enablement parents employ a combination of active and co-viewing tactics and mentor parents mostly utilise active mediation. Parenting philosophies and mediation techniques are significantly correlated, according to chi-square and correspondence studies. However, because of the region-specific and survey mode-based sampling, the study is constrained by possible sample bias. To further understand how digital parenting develops, future studies should use longitudinal techniques and a more representative sample.