Structures for Screens: Longitudinal associations between parental media rules and problematic media use in early childhood.

Technology, mind, and behavior Pub Date : 2023-01-01 Epub Date: 2023-06-29 DOI:10.1037/tmb0000104
Jane Shawcroft, Hallie Blake, Alexi Gonzalez, Sarah M Coyne
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Abstract

Media use is increasingly becoming an important facet of early childhood, and while professional organizations and researchers have attempted to present guidelines to parents to help them structure their children's media use, many parents either are not aware of these guidelines, or struggle to effectively implement them into their children's daily routine. This research aimed to examine what rules parents of young children are implementing to structure their children's media use and how specific media rules affected development of children's problematic media use (an early indicator of media dependence) longitudinally from ages 2-4 (three time points, each one year apart) in a sample of n = 435 children. We found that more parents have rules around their child's TV use than tablet use when children are around age 2 ½ years old, and that a sizable minority of parents (n = 45; 10.30%) or parents do not allow their child to use tablets at this same age. There was no relationship between media rules and problematic media use at Time 2. However, parents who did not allow their child to use tablets at Time 1 had lower levels of child problematic media use at Time 3, implying that the rules parents set around young children's use of tablets and other personal media devices may be impactful in protecting children from the development of problematic media use.

屏幕结构:父母媒体规则与儿童早期有问题的媒体使用之间的纵向关联。
媒体使用正日益成为幼儿期的一个重要方面,尽管专业组织和研究人员试图向父母提供指导方针,帮助他们安排孩子的媒体使用,但许多父母要么没有意识到这些指导方针,要么很难将其有效地落实到孩子的日常生活中。这项研究的目的是在n=435名儿童的样本中,从2岁到4岁(三个时间点,每个时间点间隔1年)纵向考察幼儿的父母正在实施什么规则来构建他们孩子的媒体使用,以及特定的媒体规则如何影响儿童有问题的媒体使用(媒体依赖的早期指标)的发展。我们发现,当孩子在2岁半左右时,更多的父母对孩子的电视使用有规定,而不是平板电脑的使用,而且相当一部分父母(n=45;10.30%)不允许孩子在这个年龄使用平板电脑。在时间2,媒体规则和有问题的媒体使用之间没有关系。然而,在第1时间段不允许孩子使用平板电脑的父母在第3时间段的儿童问题媒体使用水平较低,这意味着父母围绕幼儿使用平板电脑和其他个人媒体设备制定的规则可能会对保护儿童免受问题媒体使用的影响。
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