The Media School, Indiana University, 601 East Kirkwood Avenue, Bloomington, IN, 47405, USA.
The Center for Sexual Health Promotion, The School of Public Health at Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA.
Arch Sex Behav. 2023 Jan;52(1):373-383. doi: 10.1007/s10508-022-02449-7. Epub 2022 Oct 26.
Research on parental knowledge and positive adolescent adjustment suggests that more accurate levels of the former increase the likelihood of the latter. Despite a significant body of literature correlating adolescent pornography use with negative adolescent adjustment, however, only a handful of studies have compared parents' beliefs about their children's pornography use with adolescents' reports and just a few of these have been carried out in the U.S. The present study employed national probability data gathered from 614 parent-adolescent dyads in the U.S. as a further step toward bolstering this important area of parent-child research. Parents were 44.78 years old on average (SD = 7.76). Mothers comprised 55.80% of parents (fathers were 44.20%). Children were 15.97 years old on average (SD = 1.38). Daughters comprised 50.20% of children (sons were 49.80%). Boys were more likely to report pornography use and learning across a range of pornography genres and sexual domains. Parents accurately estimated the direction of many of these gender differences, but still consistently underestimated both sons' and daughters' exposure to and socialization from pornography. Interestingly, although parents were more likely to believe that sons than daughters had viewed and learned from pornography, their degree of underestimation was larger for sons. Mothers' and fathers' beliefs were consistently indistinguishable at the main effect level and interacted with child gender in only one instance. Results are discussed in relation to the moral panic and risk underestimation perspectives on youth and media effects.
父母知识与青少年积极适应的关系研究表明，前者的认知水平越准确，后者的可能性就越大。尽管大量文献表明青少年色情制品的使用与青少年的消极适应有关，但只有少数研究将父母对孩子色情制品使用的看法与青少年的报告进行了比较，而其中只有少数研究是在美国进行的。本研究利用美国从 614 对父母-青少年二人组中收集的全国概率数据，进一步加强了这一重要的亲子研究领域。父母的平均年龄为 44.78 岁（标准差=7.76）。母亲占父母的 55.80%（父亲占 44.20%）。孩子的平均年龄为 15.97 岁（标准差=1.38）。女儿占孩子的 50.20%（儿子占 49.80%）。男孩更有可能报告在一系列色情制品类型和性领域的使用和学习。父母准确地估计了这些性别差异的许多方向，但仍然一致低估了儿子和女儿对色情制品的接触和社会化程度。有趣的是，尽管父母更有可能认为儿子比女儿看过并从色情制品中学习，但他们对儿子的低估程度更大。母亲和父亲的信念在主要影响水平上始终无法区分，并且仅在一个实例中与孩子的性别相互作用。结果将从青年和媒体影响的道德恐慌和风险低估的角度进行讨论。
