Media and preschool children in Slovenia, 2022

The study focuses on media habits that preschool children develop. The collected data includes the views, opinions and assessments of parents and educators of children aged from 11 months to 6 years old, who are enrolled in the preschool education and care system in Slovenia in 2022, in this field. The authors identified two key environments of influence on the development of preschool children's media habits: home and kindergarten. Two target groups were formed on this basis: parents and educators. The collection of data consisted of a review of relevant literature and existing databases, preparation and testing of a survey questionnaire, acquisition, editing, archiving and analysis of data using descriptive statistics methods, and conclusively a presentation of the results in the form of a final report. Using an online questionnaire, estimates of media and screen exposure timeframes of preschool children and their parents and educators were obtained. Moreover, the attitudes of parents and educators regarding the setting of limits, their observations in the context of health, mood, body weight, aggressiveness, and preschool children’s imitation of heroes were examined. Furthermore, the authors inquired about familiarity with recommendations regarding the use of media for preschool children and precise directions regarding the use of media by the management for educators. A set of questions also referred to the area of respondents’ reflexivity, their own verification of information obtained from various media and their personal trust in the media. It is a repetition of the research from 2016.本研究聚焦学龄前儿童养成的媒介使用习惯。所采集的数据涵盖2022年斯洛文尼亚学前教育与照护体系内，年龄介于11个月至6岁的儿童的家长及教育者针对该领域相关内容的看法、观点与评价。研究团队据此确定了影响学龄前儿童媒介使用习惯发展的两大核心环境：家庭与幼儿园，并由此确立两类目标研究群体：家长与教育者。数据采集工作包括梳理相关文献与现有数据库、编制并测试调查问卷、通过描述性统计方法完成数据的获取、整理、归档与分析，最终以结题报告的形式呈现研究结果。本研究借助在线调查问卷，获取了学龄前儿童及其家长与教育者关于媒介及屏幕暴露时长的评估数据。此外，还调研了家长与教育者在设置媒介使用限制方面的态度，以及他们在儿童健康、情绪、体重、攻击性以及学龄前儿童模仿英雄形象等维度的观察结果。同时，研究团队询问了受访者对学龄前儿童媒介使用相关建议的熟悉程度，以及教育者所在管理机构发布的媒介使用具体指导方针。另有一组问题聚焦受访者的反思性维度：即他们对从各类媒介获取的信息的自我核验，以及自身对媒介的信任程度。本研究为2016年同类研究的重复实验。