An Exploratory Investigation of Parenting Strategies for Managing Adolescent Social Media Use

项目总结/摘要 超过89%的青少年使用社交媒体，先前的研究表明，社交媒体的经验， 对青少年心理社会适应的重要影响。父母可能在促进 适应性社交媒体使用，但研究父母参与青少年社交媒体使用的研究， 有限公司多年来，研究一直集中在父母的策略，以管理青年的传统媒体 使用（例如，电视、电影）。然而，社交媒体网站（例如，Facebook、Snapchat、Instagram）的独特之处在于， 青少年使用它们来消费和创建内容，经常经由个人设备访问它们（即， 智能手机），并经常依赖它们进行对等交互。这些特征带来了新的育儿挑战 并需要更新评估战略。至少六种媒体特定的育儿策略可能会影响青少年的 社交媒体用途：沟通、共同使用、建模、限制设置、非技术监控和技术 调解（例如，使用家长控制软件）。拟议的研究将描述这些和其他 战略，检查他们在多大程度上受到传统育儿维度的影响（即，温暖， 控制，结构，联盟）和父母的数字技能。此外，这项研究提供了一个必要的下一步， 了解这些策略在管理青少年社交媒体使用方面的有效性。我们将招募80名 青少年（12-14岁）和他们的父母从社会参与多方法调查， 社交媒体育儿策略家长和青少年将完成基线自我报告措施， 一个新的观察编码任务，以评估在体内父母-青少年的互动周围的父母管理， 青少年使用社交媒体此外，他们还将完成为期两周的生态瞬时评估（EMA） 评估父母管理策略和青少年社交媒体日常变化的程序 体验和心情。该研究的主要目的是：1）描述社交媒体特定的育儿方式 使用多方法程序的策略，2）检查预测社交媒体特定的养育因素 养育策略（即，总体育儿维度和数字技能），以及3）检查 父母管理策略，青少年社交媒体体验和心理社会调整。结果 将作为完善更大规模评估研究的基础，以研究特定于社交媒体的 亲职策略与青少年的短期与长期社会情绪调适。这将通知A 预防性干预，以加强管理社交媒体使用的育儿策略。这项研究直接 推进NICHD的使命，包括“行为”的科学愿景主题，通过检查的影响， 新技术对青少年发展的影响，并确定最有可能 促进积极成果。

Project Summary/Abstract Over 89% of adolescents use social media, and prior studies suggest that social media experiences have critical implications for adolescents' psychosocial adjustment. Parents may play an important role in promoting adaptive social media use, yet studies examining parents' involvement in adolescent social media use are limited. For many years, research has focused on parenting strategies to manage youth's traditional media use (e.g., TV, movies). However, social media sites (e.g., Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram) are unique in that adolescents use them to both consume and create content, frequently access them via personal devices (i.e., smartphones), and often rely on them for peer interactions. These features create new parenting challenges and require updated assessment strategies. At least six media-specific parenting strategies may impact teens' social media use: communication, co-use, modeling, limit setting, non-technical monitoring, and technical mediation (e.g., use of parental control software). The proposed study will characterize these and other strategies, examining the degree to which they are influenced by traditional parenting dimensions (i.e., warmth, control, structure, alliance) and parents' digital skills. Furthermore, this study offers a needed next step to understand the effectiveness of these strategies in managing teens' social media use. We will recruit 80 adolescents (ages 12-14) and their parents from the community to participate in a multi-method investigation of social media-specific parenting strategies. Parents and teens will complete baseline self-report measures and a novel observationally coded task to assess in vivo parent-teen interactions around parent management of teen social media use. In addition, they will complete a two-week ecological momentary assessment (EMA) procedure assessing daily variations in parent management strategies as well as teen social media experiences and mood. The primary aims of the study are to: 1) characterize social media-specific parenting strategies using a multi-method procedure, 2) examine parenting factors that predict social media-specific parenting strategies (i.e., overall parenting dimensions and digital skills), and 3) examine associations among parent management strategies, adolescent social media experiences, and psychosocial adjustment. Findings will serve as the foundation for refining a larger scale assessment study to examine social media-specific parenting strategies and adolescents' short and long-term social-emotional adjustment. This will inform a preventive intervention to enhance parenting strategies for managing social media use. This research directly advances NICHD's mission, including the Scientific Vision Theme of “behavior,” by examining the effects of emerging technologies on adolescent development and by identifying family factors that are most likely to promote positive outcomes.