Collaborative Research: Inequalities in Technology Use and Health Lifestyles of Children and Adults

该项目将分析移动互联网时代儿童和青少年对技术的使用情况。重点是技术的使用如何定位于儿童生活和家庭的互动中，以及社会阶层如何在这些过程中发挥作用。随着科技的日新月异，关于年轻人使用科技的研究一直滞后。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年使用技术的类型、频率和背景的新信息。其次，调查人员将在关于儿童健康生活方式的新兴证据和理论的基础上，将技术使用整合为一种健康行为。第三，调查人员将考虑孩子和父母围绕技术使用的谈判、实践和正在形成的理解。了解儿童使用技术与其他行为的关系，对于改善儿童的长期发展、健康和福祉非常重要。这对边缘化人口-少数族裔、移民子女和生活贫困的儿童--尤其重要。学生培训是该项目的核心，学生们大量参与分析、传播研究结果、理论发展以及定量和定性结果的整合。相对来说，人们对移动技术时代儿童使用技术的情况知之甚少，也不知道目前的技术使用模式与早期健康生活方式的其他方面有何关联，例如身体活动或与同龄人交往。这个项目将解决三个研究问题。首先，社会阶层目前如何影响儿童对科技的使用及其在他们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，以及他们构建和谈判孩子获得和使用这些技术的策略？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使用技术的社会经济差异？该项目将利用两个新的数据来源，以提供广度和深度，以了解社会阶层和当代儿童技术使用之间的关系及其背后的过程。收入动态小组研究的2014年儿童发展补充资料(CDS)收集了具有美国代表性的0-17岁样本的调查和时间日记数据。2016儿童健康生活方式研究提供了关于有小学年龄儿童的家庭的多方法定性数据。观察性数据使人们能够更全面地了解技术使用的社会环境，访谈和焦点小组阐明了对技术使用的看法和围绕它的谈判。

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.