Effetti dell'utilizzo dello smartphone nell'interazione della diade madre-bambino: risultati di uno studio sperimentale

Effects of smartphone use in the interaction of the mother-child dyad: results of an experimental study This study aimed to experimentally evaluate the effects of maternal smartphone use on mother-child interaction. 33 Israeli mothers with their 24–36-month-old children participated in 3 consecutive videotaped sessions, each with specific indications: use of the smartphone, reading a magazine, dyadic free play. The mother-child interaction was assessed in terms of maternal linguistic "input", maternal responsiveness and non-responsiveness, and conversational shifts, whose operational decoding were defined. Mothers engaged with smartphones or printed magazines produced fewer expressions and responses to baby's calls, missed baby's calls more often, and exchanged fewer conversational shifts compared to the free play setting. The quality of maternal responsiveness was also reduced. Smartphone are constantly used in current daily life and a negative effect on the development of the child is hypothesized. There is growing interest in the effects of parental use of smartphones on the relationship with the child, but data are still very limited, and the complexity of the aspects to be considered insufficiently studied.