Structures for Screens: Longitudinal associations between parental media rules and problematic media use in early childhood.
Structures for Screens: Longitudinal associations between parental media rules and problematic media use in early childhood.
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屏幕结构：父母媒体规则与幼儿期有问题的媒体使用之间的纵向关联。
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10.1037/tmb0000104
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2023
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Coyne,SarahM
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作者：
Shawcroft,Jane;Blake,Hallie;Gonzalez,Alexi;Coyne,SarahM
媒体使用正日益成为幼儿期的一个重要方面，虽然专业组织和研究人员试图向父母提供指导方针，以帮助他们构建孩子的媒体使用，但许多父母要么不知道这些指导方针，要么努力将其有效地实施到孩子的日常生活中。本研究的目的是研究什么规则的幼儿父母正在实施结构他们的孩子的媒体使用和具体的媒体规则如何影响儿童的问题媒体使用的发展（媒体依赖的早期指标）纵向从2-4岁（三个时间点，每隔一年）的样本n = 435名儿童。我们发现，当孩子年龄在2岁半左右时，更多的父母对孩子的电视使用比平板电脑使用有规则，并且相当一部分父母（n = 45; 10.30%）或父母不允许他们的孩子在同一年龄使用平板电脑。在时间2，媒体规则和有问题的媒体使用之间没有关系。然而，在时间1时不允许孩子使用平板电脑的父母在时间3时的儿童问题媒体使用水平较低，这意味着父母围绕幼儿使用平板电脑和其他个人媒体设备制定的规则可能对保护儿童免受有问题媒体使用的发展产生影响。
Media use is increasingly becoming an important facet of early childhood, and while professional organizations and researchers have attempted to present guidelines to parents to help them structure their children’s media use, many parents either are not aware of these guidelines, or struggle to effectively implement them into their children’s daily routine. This research aimed to examine what rules parents of young children are implementing to structure their children’s media use and how specific media rules affected development of children’s problematic media use (an early indicator of media dependence) longitudinally from ages 2–4 (three time points, each one year apart) in a sample of n = 435 children. We found that more parents have rules around their child’s TV use than tablet use when children are around age 2 ½ years old, and that a sizable minority of parents (n = 45; 10.30%) or parents do not allow their child to use tablets at this same age. There was no relationship between media rules and problematic media use at Time 2. However, parents who did not allow their child to use tablets at Time 1 had lower levels of child problematic media use at Time 3, implying that the rules parents set around young children’s use of tablets and other personal media devices may be impactful in protecting children from the development of problematic media use.