Between Parents and Digital Sources: How Adolescents Navigate Financial Information

This study examines how adolescents seek financial information in a digi-tal environment and explores the role of parents in shaping these practices. Drawing on a qualitative approach, it analyzes 19 online interviews con-ducted with parent–adolescent dyads. The findings show that, despite the growing availability of digital financial content, adolescents continue to re-ly primarily on their parents when financial questions arise. Online sources are consulted more occasionally and are often perceived as less stable or more difficult to evaluate. The study also shows that parents do more than transmit financial knowledge. They act as guides who contextualize, inter-pret, and validate financial information in everyday situations. In addition, adolescents express greater interest in digital financial content when it is concrete, accessible, and closely aligned with their lived reality. By com-bining crossed parent and adolescent perspectives, the study contributes to the literature on digital financial literacy by showing how financial learning is shaped at the intersection of information practices, parental support, and trust in information sources.