Measuring adolescents’ perceived negative psychosocial responses to parental sharenting: Development and initial validation of the perceived sharenting impact scale
Social Sciences and Humanities Open, cilt.14, 2026 (Scopus)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
- Cilt numarası: 14
- Basım Tarihi: 2026
- Doi Numarası: 10.1016/j.ssaho.2026.103715
- Dergi Adı: Social Sciences and Humanities Open
- Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Scopus, Directory of Open Access Journals
- Anahtar Kelimeler: Adolescents, Digital self-representation, Perceived negative psychosocial impact, Privacy, Scale development, Sharenting
- İstanbul Medipol Üniversitesi Adresli: Hayır
Özet
Parental sharing of children's personal information, images, and everyday experiences on social media has raised concerns about adolescent privacy, autonomy, digital self-representation, and family boundaries. However, sharenting research has largely focused on parental motivations, legal and ethical issues, and privacy-management practices, whereas adolescents' perceived psychosocial responses to parental sharenting remain undermeasured. This study aimed to develop and provide initial psychometric evidence for the Perceived Sharenting Impact Scale for Adolescents (PSIS-A). Participants were 1374 adolescents aged 12–18 years in Türkiye. An initial 36-item pool was generated from the sharenting literature and the conceptual definition of perceived negative psychosocial responses to parental sharenting. Following expert review, a 22-item draft form was administered, and the sample was randomly divided into exploratory and confirmatory subsamples. Exploratory factor analysis yielded a 15-item solution comprising three highly related content domains: Boundary Violation and Reduced Agency, Social-Evaluative Pressure and Relational Withdrawal, and Uncontrolled Digital Disclosure. Confirmatory factor analysis with ordered-categorical indicators showed acceptable-to-good fit for the correlated three-factor model. A second-order representation produced identical global fit because, with three first-order factors, it was statistically equivalent to the correlated-factor model. The total PSIS-A score demonstrated good internal consistency, although reliability was weaker for the three-item Uncontrolled Digital Disclosure domain. High latent factor correlations, omega-based dimensionality indices, and failure to satisfy the Fornell–Larcker criterion indicated limited domain distinctiveness. Accordingly, the total score should be treated as the primary indicator, with domain scores used cautiously as secondary descriptors. Preliminary external-validity evidence showed small negative associations with self-esteem and small positive associations with child self-efficacy. The PSIS-A provides a promising adolescent-centered measure for research on perceived negative psychosocial responses to sharenting, privacy, digital identity, and family-boundary negotiation.