Mediji in predšolski otroci v Sloveniji 2022

The collected data, presented in the report MEDIA AND PRESCHOOL CHILDREN IN SLOVENIA, includes the views, opinions, assessments of parents and educators of children aged from 11 months to inclusively 6 years old, who are enrolled in the preschool education and care system in Slovenia in 2022. The accumulation of statistical base focused on the aforementioned vulnerable group has taken place on such a scale within the Infrastructure Program of the Faculty of Media once before. Therefore, the already existing findings highlighted in Media and preschool children by Rek, Milanovski Brumat from 2016, joined with the results of current analyzes form a significant contribution to society, since the expansion of the mentioned database, whose qualities are among other its quantity and period of the data assembly, assure and support many possibilities of further research work. At the same time, the inventory of the state and trends in the current time and on the national level increases the possibility of adequate planning of media literacy guidelines for all segments of society in various disciplines and sciences. The collection of data on the media literacy of preschool children in Slovenia takes place in the second quarter of 2022 and included 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. We focused on the media habits that preschool children develop and the upbringing they receive. We have identified two key environments of influence; home and kindergarten, and consequently accumulated answers from the target groups of their parents and educators. Using a measuring instrument, an online questionnaire, we obtained estimates of the timeframes of media and screen exposure of the respondents' preschool children and the respondents themselves. We checked 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. Respondents told us whether they were familiar with the recommendations regarding media use by preschool children. We asked whether the educators of the sample have clear guidelines regarding the use of media from the management, whether they have attended at least a two-hour education about media in the last two years, and whether the pediatrician talked to the parents of the sample about the impact of the media on the child before the child turned three years old. Furthermore, the set of questions referred to the area of respondents' reflexivity, their own verification of information obtained from various media and their personal trust in the media. Demographic characteristics of the sample and paradata are also part of the report. Key words: media, preschool children, childcare workers, parents, screens, limits, media education, media literacy