Putting infants' media exposure in context: The Ecology of Media Use (EMU) study

将婴儿接触媒体的情况置于背景中：媒体使用生态学 (EMU) 研究

• 批准号: 10701787
• 负责人: HEATHER KIRKORIAN
• 金额: $ 13.87万
• 依托单位: GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-09-09 至 2025-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10701787
• 关键词: Address; Age; Behavior; COVID-19 pandemic; Child; Child Behavior; Child Development; Child Rearing; Data; Data Analyses; Development; Ecological momentary assessment; Ecology; Emotional; Emotions; Family; Gatekeeping; Goals; Individual; Infant; Infant Development; Intervention; Joints; Lead; Literature; Measures; Mediating; Mediator; Mental Health; Methods; Outcome; Parents; Pattern; Persons; Policies; Positioning Attribute; Research; Resources; Science; Scientific Advances and Accomplishments; Stress; Testing; Time; Update; Work; base; behavior prediction; burnout; coping; digital; digital media; experience; innovation; lens; multidisciplinary; parental influence; skills

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT Parents’ mental health predicts their young children’s media use. Yet, research often ignores the family context in which media are used, overlooking the influence of parents as gatekeepers of their children’s digital media exposure. To address the gap in understanding the causes and consequences of infant media exposure, the overall objective in this application is to characterize why and how parents use digital media with and around their infants, and to identify associations with parent mental health and child socio-emotional skills. The central hypothesis is that instrumental media use (i.e., parents’ reasons for using media) mediates associations between parent mental health and child socio-emotional skills. The rationale for this project is that isolation of factors contributing to the family media ecology is likely to advance scientific understanding of and interventions targeting early digital media use. The central hypothesis will be tested by pursuing three specific aims: 1) Describe how parents use digital media to meet multiple needs. 2) Determine the extent to which parent needs and child behavior predict real-time decisions about parent and child digital media use. 3) Determine the extent to which parent and child media use mediates associations between parent mental health and child socio-emotional skills across multiple timescales. The proposed study will examine real-time fluctuations in instrumental media use among a diverse group of 400 parents of children 1 to 3.99 years old, employing a multimethod approach to examine within- and between-person effects. Under Aim #1, parents’ instrumental media use will be measured across multiple timescales (annually, daily, moment-to-moment). Under Aim #2, ecological momentary assessment will be used to examine real-time parent emotions, child behavior, and media use. Under the third aim, cross-lagged analyses will test for bidirectional, temporal associations between parent mental health, parent and child media use, and child socio-emotional skills across the three waves. The proposed research is innovative because: 1) it applies an ecological lens to study infants’ socio-emotional development in the context of digital media; 2) it examines potential mediators of media effects; 3) it considers both positive and negative uses of media; 4) it uses a multi-method, comprehensive assessment of the family media ecology; 5) it captures data in real time; 6) it employs advanced longitudinal data analysis; and 7) it maximizes impact through interdisciplinary, synergistic science. The proposed research is significant because it will be the first systematic effort to examine the causes and consequences of parents’ instrumental media use with and around infants across multiple timescales. The findings will contribute to evidence-informed policies and interventions regarding parent and infant digital media use, and be used to tailor interventions to the specific needs of individual families. Ultimately, such policies and interventions would support parents’ healthy coping and infants’ socio-emotional development in the digital age.

项目总结/摘要 父母的心理健康状况可以预测他们年幼的孩子对媒体的使用。然而，研究往往忽视了家庭 媒体使用的背景，忽视了父母作为孩子数字化的守门人的影响力。 媒体曝光解决在理解幼儿媒体的原因和后果方面存在的差距 暴露，本申请的总体目标是描述父母为什么以及如何使用数字媒体， 和周围的婴儿，并确定与父母的心理健康和儿童的社会情感技能的关联。 核心假设是工具性媒体使用（即，父母使用媒体的原因） 父母心理健康与儿童社会情感技能之间的关系。该项目的基本原理是， 分离有助于家庭媒体生态的因素可能会促进科学的理解， 针对早期数字媒体使用的干预措施。中心假设将通过追求三个具体的测试 目的：1）描述父母如何使用数字媒体来满足多种需求。2)确定在何种程度 父母的需求和孩子的行为可以预测父母和孩子使用数字媒体的实时决策。第三章 确定父母和孩子媒体使用在多大程度上介导了父母心理健康之间的关联 以及儿童的社会情感技能。这项研究将实时检查 400名1至3.99岁儿童的父母组成的不同群体中工具媒体使用的波动， 采用多方法的方法来检查内和人与人之间的影响。在目标1下，父母的 工具性媒体的使用将在多个时间尺度上进行衡量（每年、每天、每时每刻）。 在目标#2下，生态瞬时评估将用于检查实时父母情绪，孩子 行为和媒体使用。在第三个目标下，交叉滞后分析将测试双向、时间 父母心理健康，父母和儿童媒体使用以及儿童社会情感技能之间的关联 三个浪潮。这项研究的创新之处在于：1）它采用了一种生态透镜来研究婴儿的 数字媒体背景下的社会情感发展; 2）它研究了媒体的潜在媒介 影响; 3）它考虑了媒体的积极和消极使用; 4）它使用了多方法，全面 评估家庭媒体生态; 5）它捕获数据在真实的时间; 6）它采用先进的纵向 数据分析; 7）通过跨学科、协同科学最大限度地发挥影响。拟议研究 这项研究意义重大，因为它将是第一次系统地研究父母离婚的原因和后果的努力。 在多个时间尺度上与婴儿一起使用和围绕婴儿使用工具媒体。这些发现将有助于 关于父母和婴儿数字媒体使用的循证政策和干预措施，并用于 根据个别家庭的具体需要采取干预措施。最终，这些政策和干预措施将 支持父母在数字时代的健康应对和婴儿的社会情感发展。