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| Personal Name | Cawaon, Franxine Uel A. |
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| Resource Title | Slipping through my fingers: how Filipino mothers construct social media mediation strategies for their adolescent daughters as a means of informal sex education |
| Date Issued | 11 June 2026 |
| Abstract | This thesis examines how Filipino mothers construct social media mediation strategies for their adolescent daughters as a means of informal sex education. With increasing cases of adolescent pregnancy and other sexual health concerns, sex education has become progressively important to discuss within the family, as parents are culturally positioned as gatekeepers of these socially taboo topics. Although Filipino culture remains conservative, mothers are faced with the need to protect their daughters from harm, especially online. Guided by the Extended Theoretical Framework of Parental Internet Mediation and Gender Schema Theory, this qualitative study utilized in-depth interviews with 12 Filipino mothers to gather insights on their ecologies and schemas, perceptions of their daughters’ social media environment, parental mediation strategies, and the cyclical processes of reflection and recalibration of these strategies over time. Findings show that these mothers’ sex education executions were shaped primarily by faith, lived experience, and strong protective instincts. Social media was a necessary contemporary component of their daughters’ adolescent life, but still inherently risky. Their parental mediation was multi-layered and heavily surveillance-oriented. In conclusion, their mediation strategies are dynamic, yet remain grounded in trust in their relationships with their daughters and authority-centered parenting structures. |
| Degree Course | BA Communication Research |
| Language | English |
| Keyword | social media mediation, Filipino mother-daughter relationship, Extended Theoretical Framework of Parental Internet Mediation, resilience, adolescent daughters |
| Material Type | Thesis/Dissertation |
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