American parents’ active engagement mediates the impact of background television on toddlers’ play

Kirkorian, Heather L.; Choi, Koeun; Anderson, Daniel R.

doi:10.1080/17482798.2019.1635033

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“…One aspect not addressed in our study, but that deserves more attention, is how parents use technology themselves and how parents “teach’ infants rules about using technology. Technology has an impact on children but parental style mediates this effect ( Zack and Barr, 2016 ; Kirkorian et al, 2019 ). Along these lines, Radesky et al (2014a) documented that American parents vary a lot in the degree of absorption with their device during the routine of lunch in fast food restaurants.…”

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How Infant and Toddlers’ Media Use Is Related to Sleeping Habits in Everyday Life in Italy

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BackgroundHeavy media use has been linked to sleep problems in children, which may also extend to the infancy period. While international parent-advisory agencies, such as the American Academy of Pediatrics (2016), advise no screen time before 18 months, parents often do not follow this recommendation. Research on Italian infants’ early access to media is sparse, and only very few studies have investigated links with sleeping habits.MethodTo address this gap, we examined concurrent associations between parent-reported surveys of child technology use and sleeping patterns. The Italian version of the 60 item Comprehensive Assessment of Family Media Exposure (CAFE) Survey, developed as part of a larger international study, (Barr et al., 2020), the Brief Screening Questionnaire for Infant Sleep Problems (BISQ) Sadeh, 2004) were completed online by 264 Italian parents of 8- to 36-month-olds and a subset (n = 134) completed the Parenting Stress Index (PSI) Abidin, 1995) between April 2017 and April 2018.ResultsMore devices located in the child’s room and the more time spent watching TV or using an iPad were associated with less hours of sleep at night. Furthermore, more time spent watching TV or using a smartphone, as well as the number of devices in the room was associated with going to sleep later at night. Instrumental media use was associated with less sleep.ConclusionLike other countries, Italian infants have high levels of exposure to media, and differences in media patterns were associated with sleep patterns. Cultural factors influence both instrumental reasons for media use and sleep practices. Further research should explore how media use may serve to regulate emotion as a function of both contextual factors and individual differences.

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How Infant and Toddlers’ Media Use Is Related to Sleeping Habits in Everyday Life in Italy

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“…Parents’ own media use not only predicts their children’s media use, but it may also have an indirect effect on children via technoference (i.e., reduction in the quality of parent–child interactions when parents are engaged in their own media use) ( McDaniel and Radesky, 2018 ). Parents are less actively engaged in their children’s play in the presence of adult-directed television (versus no television), resulting in lower levels of play ( Kirkorian et al, 2019 ). Furthermore, parents’ use of mobile media during shared activities is associated with lower-quality interactions ( Radesky et al, 2014 , 2015a , b ) and reduced learning ( Reed et al, 2017 ).…”

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Beyond Screen Time: A Synergistic Approach to a More Comprehensive Assessment of Family Media Exposure During Early Childhood

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Barr et al. Beyond Screen Time exposure in families with young children: measuring attitudes and practices; capturing content and context; measuring short bursts of mobile device usage; and integrating data to capture the complexity of household media usage. We illustrate how each of these challenges can be addressed with preliminary data collected with the CAFE tool and visualized on our dashboard. We conclude with future directions including plans to test reliability, validity, and generalizability of these measures.

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“…Most studies of this nature average approximately 20 participants per condition and are able to find differences [21,75,76]. Although our sample count was similar, it is certainly possible that unlike earlier research, this analysis would need more statistical power in order to detect very small differences between conditions.…”

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Preschoolers’ STEM Learning on a Haptic Enabled Tablet

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The research on children’s learning of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) topics from electronic applications (apps) is limited, though it appears that children can reasonably transfer learning from tablet games to particular tasks. We were interested to determine whether these findings would translate to the emerging technology of haptic feedback tablets. The research on haptic feedback technology, specifically, has found that this type of feedback is effective in teaching physics concepts to older students. However, haptic feedback has not yet been sufficiently explored with younger groups (e.g., preschoolers). To determine the effect of playing a STEM game enhanced with haptic technology on learning outcomes, we designed an experiment where preschool participants were randomly exposed to one of three different conditions: (a) STEM game with no haptic feedback (tablet), (b) STEM game enabled with haptic feedback (haptics), or (c) a puzzle game (control). Results revealed no significant differences in comprehension or transfer by condition. Results from this study contribute to the literature on the effectiveness of haptic feedback for preschool STEM learning.

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American parents’ active engagement mediates the impact of background television on toddlers’ play

Cited by 9 publications

References 47 publications

How Infant and Toddlers’ Media Use Is Related to Sleeping Habits in Everyday Life in Italy

How Infant and Toddlers’ Media Use Is Related to Sleeping Habits in Everyday Life in Italy

Beyond Screen Time: A Synergistic Approach to a More Comprehensive Assessment of Family Media Exposure During Early Childhood

Preschoolers’ STEM Learning on a Haptic Enabled Tablet

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