The Mediating Effect of Children’s Media Use on the Relationship Between Mothers' Parenting Stress and Child’s Difficulty in Executing: Focusing on the Moderating Effect of Social Support Perceived by Mothers.

The purpose of this study is to verify the controlled mediating effect of social support perceived by mothers on the relationship between mothers' parenting stress and their children's executive functions, mediated through media use. To accomplish this, data were collected from 1,087 mothers and 6th-grade elementary school children (12 years old) as part of the 13th wave of the Korean Children's Panel. SPSS 27.0 and PROCESS Macro for SPSS 4.3, models 1, 4, and 7 were employed for data analysis. The results of the analysis are as follows: First, children's media use was found to mediate the impact of mothers' parenting stress on their children's difficulties in execution. Second, it was confirmed that the social support perceived by mothers controlled the effect of mothers' parenting stress on their children's media use. Third, it was observed that the social support perceived by the mother had a controlled mediating effect on the relationship between the mother's parenting stress and the child's difficulty in executing, by controlling for the child's media use. Based on these results, implications and suggestions are presented.