Parent and Child Technoference and socioemotional behavioral outcomes: A nationally representative study of 10- to 20-year-Old adolescents

Stockdale, Laura; Coyne, Sarah M.; Padilla‐Walker, Laura M.

doi:10.1016/j.chb.2018.06.034

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“…Additionally, in parent‐report data, an association has been found between greater parent difficulties with managing their phone use while with their children and worse overall parenting quality—i.e., greater parenting laxness and overreactivity (McDaniel, Everest, & White, ). It is interesting that adolescents corroborate these findings, perceiving their parents to be less warm with them as a result of parent distraction with phones (Stockdale, Coyne, & Padilla‐Walker, ).…”

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“…Overall, these results suggest that children and teens experience negative emotions surrounding their parents' use. Furthermore, a recent study of teens' perceptions found that when teens perceive their parents as distracted more often by their devices they also feel they experience less parental warmth, and then this is ultimately tied to a host of negative outcomes in these teens—such as anxiety and depression (Stockdale et al, ).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Future work should examine the prevalence of parent device absorption and distraction, reasons for use, feelings about use, and child outcomes in more diverse samples. Furthermore, there is often a lack of child or teen perspectives on the issue (although there are a few notable exceptions; e.g., Hiniker et al, ; Jiang, ; Stockdale et al, ). It is also clear that the processes can differ depending on the child's age, especially as older children and teens also have their own devices (e.g., Stockdale et al, ).…”

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Parent distraction with phones, reasons for use, and impacts on parenting and child outcomes: A review of the emerging research

McDaniel

2019

Human Behav and Emerg Tech

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The current article reviews the emerging research related to parent distraction with phones and mobile devices. From this review, it is clear that parent distraction with phones and mobile devices while around children has become common. This is concerning, as the evidence suggests links with parenting and child outcomes—such as lower awareness and sensitivity, fewer verbal and nonverbal interactions, less coordinated parenting and coparenting, dissatisfaction with time spent together, and negative child reactions (e.g., problem behaviors). The issue is complex, however, as many reasons may drive parents to use devices around children, such as strong habits, device notifications, work/social pressures, parenting stress, and boredom or loneliness. Ultimately, parenting is affected due to displacement of time with children, difficulty of multitasking between device and child, and the emotions and stresses that can come from device use. Research gaps are found and future directions are proposed. Most findings come from self‐reports or observations. More longitudinal and experimental work is needed to establish causation. Furthermore, as parents and children are concerned about phone use during family time, it is important for evidence‐based programs to be developed to address healthy device habits specifically during family time and social interactions.

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Parent distraction with phones, reasons for use, and impacts on parenting and child outcomes: A review of the emerging research

McDaniel

2019

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“…Technoference in parent-child relationships has been associated with poorer parenting quality (Beamish, Fisher, & Rowe, 2018), and fewer verbal and nonverbal bids from parents toward young children (Radesky et al, 2014). Additionally, parents who were more absorbed with their technology during technoference responded more harshly to young children's bids for attention (Radesky et al, 2014), and adolescent reports of parental technoference were related to decreased feelings of parental warmth and support (Stockdale, Coyne, & Padilla-Walker, 2018). Collectively, these studies suggest that technoference may alter parental responding to young children and thus children's feelings or warmth and acceptance by parents.…”

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Infants’ response to a mobile phone modified still‐face paradigm: Links to maternal behaviors and beliefs regarding technoference

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Coyne

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Interruptions to parent–child interactions due to technology, or “technoference,” have been correlated with a host of negative child developmental outcomes. Yet, the influence of technoference on parent–infant interactions and infant behaviors has received less attention and more experimental work is warranted. For this study, parent–infant dyads (n = 227) completed a modified still‐face paradigm (SFP) using a mobile phone during the still‐face phase. Infant responses were coded for positive and negative affect, object and parent orientation, self‐comforting, and escape behaviors during the task. Results showed a robust still‐face effect, with infants displaying increased negative affect, decreased positive affect, increased self‐comforting, object orientation, and escape behaviors during the “still‐face” or phone distracted phase of the paradigm and frequently failing to return to baseline during the reunion phase. Older infants (older than 9 months) likewise demonstrated higher levels of negative affect across all three phases of the paradigm relative to younger infants (less than 9 months). Parent reports of technoference behavior were related to increased object orientation for younger infants. Parental technoference behaviors were also linked to more escape behaviors for younger infants and decreased object orientation in older infants during the still‐face portion of the SFP. Higher levels of technoference also appear to attenuate the negative emotional response of infants during still face. Results are discussed in relation to infants’ increasing exposure to digital technology in the context of early relationships.

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“…The importance of parent-child interactions in driving developmental processes (Gadaire et al, 2017) means frequent technoference can negatively impact development. Evidence shows technoference impacts children's socio-emotional and behavioural development (Stockdale et al, 2018), and is associated with greater problematic externalising and internalising behaviours (McDaniel & Radesky, 2018a, McDaniel & Radesky, 2018b.…”

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Early childhood technoference threat is predicted by authoritative parenting, but not parental knowledge of digital risks.

Turvill¹,

Fido²,

Parker³

2019

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Frequent disruption to parent-child interactions by technology (technoference) significantly impacts problematic behaviours and socioemotional development. Currently unknown is whether this is a novel challenge presented to all parents by the proliferation of technology, or representative of existing maladaptive parenting practices. Two- hundred and fifteen UK parents (Mage = 36 years) self-reported parenting style (i.e., authoritative, authoritarian, permissive), technoference, problematic technology use, and perception of digital risks. Results indicated higher authoritative parenting styles predicted reduced technoference (b = -.29), and problematic technology use was associated with increased technoference and higher use of both permissive and authoritarian parenting styles. For the first time, prevalence of technoference is shown to disproportionately threaten a subset of children. Supplementary materials: [https://osf.io/b6rn3/?view_only=5b422beef2ef4aea95c28e28e55f1a5e]

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Parent and Child Technoference and socioemotional behavioral outcomes: A nationally representative study of 10- to 20-year-Old adolescents

Cited by 151 publications

References 44 publications

Parent distraction with phones, reasons for use, and impacts on parenting and child outcomes: A review of the emerging research

Parent distraction with phones, reasons for use, and impacts on parenting and child outcomes: A review of the emerging research

Infants’ response to a mobile phone modified still‐face paradigm: Links to maternal behaviors and beliefs regarding technoference

Early childhood technoference threat is predicted by authoritative parenting, but not parental knowledge of digital risks.

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