“…Adding to a literature showing interruption of parent-child play by background television (Kirkorian, Pempek, Murphy, Schmidt, & Anderson, 2009), recent studies have suggested that parent mobile technology use around children is associated with fewer parent-child interactions (Radesky, Miller, Rosenblum, Appugliese, Kaciroti, & Lumeng, 2015a), lower responsivity to child bids (Hiniker, Sobel, Suh, Sung, Lee, & Kientz, 2015), and qualitative observations of parent hostility in response to child bids for attention (Radesky, Kistin, Zuckerman, Nitzberg, Gross, Kaplan-Sanoff, Augustyn, & Silverstein, 2014). Additionally, technological interruption during parenting has been associated with mothers’ perceptions of lower coparenting quality (McDaniel & Coyne, 2016b).…”