The roles of general and technology-related parenting in managing youth screen time.

Sanders, Wesley; Parent, Justin; Forehand, Rex; Breslend, Nicole Lafko

doi:10.1037/fam0000175

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“…Items were scored such that higher scores reflect more parental rules around child technology use ( M = 10.39, SD = 4.43). Previous research supports the use of the TPS across child development stages as well as supporting initial discriminant and concurrent validity (Sanders et al, 2016). The alpha coefficient for this scale across the three samples was .87.…”

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“…The Technology-related Parenting Scale (TPS; Sanders, Parent, Forehand, & Breslend, 2016) was used to assess behavioral control specifically in regard to children's technology use. Parents responded to eight questions that described potential rules (e.g., “limits on the amount of time,” and “limits on the type of content allowed”) and enforcement strategies (e.g., “Consequences if the child accesses when not allowed,” and “Passwords on these devices”) they use for their child's screen time in the home.…”

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Parental perceptions of technology and technology-focused parenting: Associations with youth screen time

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Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology

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In the present study we propose a model linking parental perceptions of technology to technology-related parenting strategies to youth screen time, and, finally, to internalizing and externalizing problem behaviors. Participants were 615 parents drawn from three community samples of families with children across three developmental stages: young childhood, middle childhood, and adolescence. The model was tested at each stage with the strongest support emerging in the young childhood sample. One component of parental perceptions of technology, perceived efficacy, was related to technology-related parenting strategies across developmental stages. However, the association of these strategies to child screen time and, in turn, problem behaviors, diminished as children increased in age. Implications for intervention are considered.

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Parental perceptions of technology and technology-focused parenting: Associations with youth screen time

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“…Due to outliers two standard deviations above the mean that were beyond possible daily totals, such values were winsorized and assigned the highest value at two standard deviations. The method employed in the current study to measure child screen time was similar to those used by major industry reports and peer-reviewed research 38,39 .…”

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Youth Screen Time and Behavioral Health Problems

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2016

Journal of Developmental &Amp; Behavioral Pediatrics

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OBJECTIVE The purpose of the current study was to examine the indirect effect of youth screen time (e.g., television, computers, smartphones, video games, and tablets) on behavioral health problems (i.e., internalizing, externalizing, and peer problems) through sleep duration and disturbances. METHODS We assessed a community sample of parents with a child in one of three developmental stages: young childhood (3 – 7 yrs.; N = 209), middle childhood (8 – 12 yrs.; N = 202), and adolescence (13 – 17 yrs.; N = 210). Path analysis was employed to test the hypothesized indirect effect model. RESULTS Findings indicated that, regardless of the developmental stage of the youth, higher levels of youth screen time were associated with more sleep disturbances, which, in turn, were linked to higher levels of youth behavioral health problems. CONCLUSION Children who have increased screen time are more likely to have poor sleep quality and problem behaviors.

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“…18 Cross-sectional research indicates that the strength of the relationship between parental restrictive mediation (eg, limits on time and content, consequences of rule violations) and screen time in youth decreases from early childhood to adolescence. 19 To date, little is known about how parental mediation behaviors develop and evolve over time or interact with child characteristics. To our knowledge, only a handful of longitudinal studies have examined parental mediation over time and only over the course of a few years.…”

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Parenting and Digital Media

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Understanding the family dynamic surrounding media use is crucial to our understanding of media effects, policy development, and the targeting of individuals and families for interventions to benefit child health and development. The Families, Parenting, and Media Workgroup reviewed the relevant research from the past few decades. We find that child characteristics, the parent-child relationship, parental mediation practices, and parents' own use of media all can influence children's media use, their attitudes regarding media, and the effects of media on children. However, gaps remain. First, more research is needed on best practices of parental mediation for both traditional and new media. Ideally, this research will involve large-scale, longitudinal studies that manage children from infancy to adulthood. Second, we need to better understand the relationship between parent media use and child media use and specifically how media may interfere with or strengthen parent-child relationships. Finally, longitudinal research on how developmental processes and individual child characteristics influence the intersection between media and family life is needed. The majority of children's media use takes place within a wider family dynamic. An understanding of this dynamic is crucial to understanding child media use as a whole.

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The roles of general and technology-related parenting in managing youth screen time.

Cited by 28 publications

References 33 publications

Parental perceptions of technology and technology-focused parenting: Associations with youth screen time

Parental perceptions of technology and technology-focused parenting: Associations with youth screen time

Youth Screen Time and Behavioral Health Problems

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