Sharenting: Navigating the Intersection of Parental Sharing and Child Cybersecurity

Sharenting happens when parents or relatives post photos of their children, usually minors, on social media. However, this has privacy-compromising and child-risking consequences, which may lead to cyber fraud. The paper aims to validate a digital parental sharing scale (DPSS) in the Indian Context. A proper process of designing and validating the scale was carried out on a sample of 250 Indian parents. With the help of analytical tools, the validity and reliability of the analysis were validated. A fourteen-item scale was validated based on social acceptance, Privacy and control, Memories and milestones, and Cyber Security. With good psychometric properties, the scale is validated as a reliable instrument for recording the level of sharenting amongst Indian Parents. The research paper is limited to understanding the level of sharenting by Indian parents. It has not explored the effects of sharenting on Indian children.