Kids These Days: Are Face-to-Face Social Skills among American Children Declining?1
Kids These Days: Are Face-to-Face Social Skills among American Children Declining?1
复制标题
DOI：
10.1086/707985
复制
发表时间：
2020-01-01
影响因子：
4.4
通讯作者：
Gibbs, Benjamin G.
中科院分区：
文献类型：
--
作者：
Downey, Douglas B.;Gibbs, Benjamin G.
许多社会评论家认为，由于接触技术，儿童的社会技能正在下降。但这一说法很难从经验上进行评估，因为自信地衡量“社交技能”是一项挑战，而且一项强有力的测试将采用多个队列的全国代表性数据。目前没有奖学金符合这些标准。作者通过比较1998年和2010年儿童早期纵向研究队列中教师和家长对儿童社交技能的评价来填补这一空白。作者没有发现任何证据表明教师或家长认为最近的同龄人中儿童的面对面社交技能较差，即使考虑到家庭特征，屏幕时间使用和其他因素。此外，在队列中，与很少接触屏幕的儿童相比，大量接触屏幕的儿童表现出类似的社交技能轨迹。但有一个明显的例外，那就是那些一天多次上网玩游戏和社交网络的孩子的社交能力较低。然而，总的来说，这些结果对社会技能由于技术变革而下降的主流说法提出了挑战。
Many social commentators posit that children's social skills are declining as a result of exposure to technology. But this claim is difficult to assess empirically because it is challenging to measure "social skills" with confidence and because a strong test would employ nationally representative data of multiple cohorts. No scholarship currently meets these criteria. The authors fill that gap by comparing teachers' and parents' evaluations of children's social skills among children in the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study 1998 and 2010 cohorts. The authors find no evidence that teachers or parents rate children's face-to-face social skills as poorer among more recent cohorts, even when accounting for family characteristics, screen time use, and other factors. In addition, within cohorts, children with heavy exposure to screens exhibit similar social skills trajectories compared to children with little exposure to screens. There is a notable exception-social skills are lower for children who access online gaming and social networking many times a day. Overall, however, the results represent a challenge to the dominant narrative that social skills are declining due to technological change.