Screen time as an index of family distress

Autor:	Yi Ting Huang, Pablo Martín Lucio Paredes, María Daniela Velasco, Parker T. Robbins, Joshua K. Hartshorne, Kathleen Oppenheimer
Rok vydání:	2020
Předmět:	Index (economics) business.industry Psychological intervention COVID-19 General Medicine Coaching Screen time Preference BF1-990 Developmental psychology Well-being Psychology business Association (psychology) Family distress Child development
Zdroj:	Current Research in Behavioral Sciences Current Research in Behavioral Sciences, Vol 2, Iss, Pp 100023-(2021)
DOI:	10.31234/osf.io/zqc4t
Popis:	The increase in children’s screen time over the last few decades has concerned parents, educators, and policymakers alike, due to its association with negative developmental outcomes. Interventions have focused on cautioning parents against screen time and coaching them on how to limit it. Such interventions are unlikely to be effective if screen time is driven less by parental preference than by parental necessity, supplementing insufficient adult caretaker availability. We show that during the COVID crisis, screen time in the United States increased dramatically as a direct result of sudden decrease in adult caretaker availability. This indicates that lower screen time rates prior to the pandemic were not (merely) a function of well-informed parenting but of well-resourced parenting. It also supports claims that the associations between screen time and developmental outcomes are epiphenomenal and due to their joint dependence on family well being.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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