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Mobile media use by infants and toddlers

Authors:

Laura E. Levine,

Bradley M. Waite,

Laura L. Bowman,

Kyla KachinskyAuthors Info & Claims

Volume 94, Issue C

Pages 92 - 99

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2018.12.045

Published: 01 May 2019 Publication History

Abstract

This study examined mobile media (MM) use patterns by infants and toddlers (36 months old and younger, N = 326) from a family media ecology perspective. Parents' frequency of MM use, their motives for child's use, and child's age predicted children's total MM use. Parents with stronger educational motivations were more likely to use MM together with their child and less likely to have the child use MM alone. Less parent education, more non-educational motivations and greater child behavioral dysregulation predicted greater child use of MM alone. Parents with predominantly non-educational motivations were likely to provide higher levels of child MM use alone when their children had greater behavioral dysregulation. Results suggest family media ecology relates to the amount and the social context of young children's MM use; i.e., as a teaching tool together with a parent, or as a parenting tool to cope with children's more challenging behavior.

Highlights

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Parents' frequency of mobile media (MM) use predicted children's total MM use on our online survey.

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Parents with stronger educational motivations were more likely to use MM together with their child.

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Less parent education and greater child behavioral dysregulation predicted greater child use of MM alone.

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Parents with non-educational motivations related to child MM use alone when children had greater behavioral dysregulation.

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1. Applied computing
2. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)

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Computers in Human Behavior Volume 94, Issue C

May 2019

190 pages

ISSN:0747-5632

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