Collaborative Research: Socioeconomic Inequalities in Technology Use and Health Lifestyles among Children and Youth.

合作研究：儿童和青少年技术使用和健康生活方式的社会经济不平等。

• 批准号: 1729115
• 负责人: Paula Fomby
• 金额: $ 7.7万
• 依托单位: Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-08-01 至 2021-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1729115&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Socioeconomic; Inequalities; Technology

This project will analyze the use of technologies by children and teenagers in the mobile internet era. The focus is how technology use is situated within the interaction of children's lives and families, and how social class plays into these processes. With technologies changing rapidly, research on young people's technology use have lagged. The study will contribute to knowledge in several areas. First, the project will provide new information about the type, frequency, and context of technology use among children and youth. Second, investigators will build upon the emerging body of evidence and theory on children's health lifestyles by integrating technology use as a health behavior. Third, investigators will consider children's and parents' negotiations, practices, and emerging understandings around technology use. Understanding children's technology use as it relates to other behavior is important for improving the longer-term development, health, and well-being of children. This is particularly important for marginalized populations--racial/ethnic minorities, children of immigrants, and children living in poverty. Student training is central to the project, with students heavily involved in analysis, dissemination of findings, theoretical development, and integration of quantitative and qualitative results.Relatively little is known about children's technology use in the mobile technology era or about how current patterns of technology use relate to other aspects of health lifestyles, such as physical activity or socializing with peers, in early life. This project will address three research questions. First, how does social class currently shape children's technology use and its role in their health lifestyles? Second, how does social class influence parents' perceptions of emerging technologies and their strategies for structuring and negotiating children's access to and use of these technologies? Third, do family negotiations and practices around technology use help to explain socioeconomic variation in children's technology use? This project will draw on two new data sources to provide breadth and depth in understanding the relationship between social class and contemporary children's technology use and processes underlying it. The 2014 Child Development Supplement (CDS) of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics collected survey and time diary data from a US-representative sample ages 0-17. The 2016 Children's Health Lifestyles study provides multimethod qualitative data on families with elementary-aged children. The observational data permit a fuller understanding of the social settings of technology use, and interview and focus groups illuminate perceptions of and negotiations around it.

该项目将分析儿童和青少年在移动互联网时代对技术的使用情况。重点是如何在儿童生活和家庭的互动中使用技术，以及社会阶层如何在这些过程中发挥作用。随着技术的快速变化，对年轻人使用技术的研究滞后。这项研究将有助于在几个领域的知识。首先，该项目将提供有关儿童和青少年使用技术的类型、频率和背景的新信息。其次，调查人员将通过将技术使用作为一种健康行为来整合，以新出现的关于儿童健康生活方式的证据和理论为基础。第三，调查人员将考虑孩子和父母的谈判，实践，以及对技术使用的新理解。了解儿童使用科技产品与其他行为的关系，对于改善儿童的长期发展、健康和福祉非常重要。这对边缘化人群——种族/少数民族、移民子女和生活贫困的儿童——尤其重要。学生培训是项目的核心，学生大量参与分析、传播发现、理论发展以及定量和定性结果的整合。人们对移动技术时代儿童的技术使用情况知之甚少，也不清楚目前的技术使用模式与健康生活方式的其他方面（如早年的体育活动或与同龄人的社交活动）之间的关系。这个项目将解决三个研究问题。首先，目前社会阶层如何影响儿童对科技产品的使用及其在健康生活方式中的作用？其次，社会阶层如何影响父母对新兴技术的看法，以及他们在组织和协商儿童获取和使用这些技术方面的策略？第三，围绕技术使用的家庭谈判和实践是否有助于解释儿童技术使用的社会经济差异？该项目将利用两个新的数据来源，为理解社会阶层与当代儿童的技术使用及其背后的过程之间的关系提供广度和深度。收入动态小组研究的2014年儿童发展补充（CDS）收集了美国0-17岁代表性样本的调查和时间日记数据。2016年儿童健康生活方式研究为有小学年龄儿童的家庭提供了多方法定性数据。观察数据允许对技术使用的社会背景有更全面的了解，访谈和焦点小组阐明了对技术使用的看法和谈判。