A Friend Request from Dear Old Dad: Associations Between Parent–Child Social Networking and Adolescent Outcomes

Coyne, Sarah M.; Padilla‐Walker, Laura M.; Day, Randal D.; Harper, James M.; Stockdale, Laura

doi:10.1089/cyber.2012.0623

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“…Previous correlational studies do show that adolescents who more frequently text (Padilla-Walker, Coyne, & Fraser, 2012) and use social media (Coyne, Padilla-Walker, Day, Harper, & Stockdale, 2013;Yang, 2016) with parents have greater feelings of closeness with parents.…”

Section: Adolescents' Relationships With Parentsmentioning

confidence: 92%

Adolescents’ daily face-to-face and computer-mediated communication: Associations with autonomy and closeness to parents and friends.

Manago¹,

Brown²,

Lawley³

et al. 2020

Developmental Psychology

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The amount of time adolescents spend communicating via digital technologies such as smartphones has led to concerns that computer-mediated communication (CMC) is displacing face-to-face (FtF) interactions and disrupting social development. Although many studies have examined CMC in adolescents' relationships with friends, few studies have examined the role of CMC in adolescents' renegotiation of closeness and autonomy with parents. To examine this issue, we administered an online daily diary with 169 U.S. adolescents to estimate the time they spend in CMC and FtF interactions and the number of texts they exchange with friends and parents. On the last day of the survey we asked adolescents about their emotional closeness to friends and parents, and their balance of closeness and volition with parents. Overall, we found more evidence for social stimulation than displacement effects of CMC. Texts and CMC time with friends predicted friend closeness after accounting for FtF time with friends; texts with parents predicted parent closeness after accounting for FtF time with parents. We also found support for our hypothesis that CMC would be associated with greater adolescent volition. CMC time with parents predicted greater volitional dependence (volition plus closeness) whereas texts with friends predicted greater independent decision-making (volition plus distance). We discuss how communication technologies are integrated into U.S. adolescents' relationships with friends and parents and how CMC can facilitate, rather than stifle, adolescents' adjustment of autonomy-relatedness with parents and their construction of emotional closeness with friends.

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Section: Adolescents' Relationships With Parentsmentioning

confidence: 92%

Adolescents’ daily face-to-face and computer-mediated communication: Associations with autonomy and closeness to parents and friends.

Manago¹,

Brown²,

Lawley³

et al. 2020

Developmental Psychology

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“…The SNSs studied in this study were Facebook, Twitter, and Sina Weibo. Facebook had over 1.15 billion active users by 2013 (Facebook, ), Twitter recently stated that it has garnered 500 million active users (Coyne et al., ), while Sina Weibo is a leading SNS in China, surpassing all others and garnering over 300 million of China's microblog users in February, 2012 (Zhao, Zhu, Qian, & Zhou, ). During sampling, Facebook library posts were only found in Taiwan, while Sina Weibo was commonly used among libraries in Mainland China.…”

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Interactions between English‐speaking and Chinese‐speaking users and librarians on social networking sites

Huang

Chu

Chen

2014

Asso for Info Science & Tech

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Social networking sites (SNSs) can encourage interaction among users. Existing research mainly focuses on the ways in which SNSs are used in libraries and on librarians' or users' attitudes towards these SNSs. This study focused on the flow of information via SNS interactions between librarians and users on libraryFacebook, Twitter, and Chinese Weibo sites, and developed an SNS user interaction type model based on these information flows. A mixed-method approach was employed combining quantitative data generated from the analysis of 1,753 posts sampled from 40 library SNSs and qualitative data from interviews with 10 librarians. Four types of interactions were identified: information/knowledge sharing, information dissemination, communication, and information gathering. The study found that SNSs were used primarily as channels for disseminating news and announcements about things currently happening in the library. Communication allowed open-ended questions and produced more replies. In Facebook posts, Chinese Facebook users generated less "likes" than English-speaking users. The comparison of data between Facebook-like and Twitterlike SNSs in different library settings suggested that libraries need to coordinate different types of SNSs, and take library settings and sociocultural environments into consideration in order to enhance and encourage user engagement and interaction.

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“…7 In addition, research has found that social media can strengthen family bonds and feelings of connectedness. 21 Among adolescents, there is evidence that social media are used to keep in touch with family, 22 and parents who use social media report keeping up with their children and other family members as the top reasons for use. 23 However, more research is needed to understand how parenting behaviors connect to parental mediation of various types of digital media, especially at different child ages.…”

Section: Parenting Style Family Connectedness and Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%

Parenting and Digital Media

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Understanding the family dynamic surrounding media use is crucial to our understanding of media effects, policy development, and the targeting of individuals and families for interventions to benefit child health and development. The Families, Parenting, and Media Workgroup reviewed the relevant research from the past few decades. We find that child characteristics, the parent-child relationship, parental mediation practices, and parents' own use of media all can influence children's media use, their attitudes regarding media, and the effects of media on children. However, gaps remain. First, more research is needed on best practices of parental mediation for both traditional and new media. Ideally, this research will involve large-scale, longitudinal studies that manage children from infancy to adulthood. Second, we need to better understand the relationship between parent media use and child media use and specifically how media may interfere with or strengthen parent-child relationships. Finally, longitudinal research on how developmental processes and individual child characteristics influence the intersection between media and family life is needed. The majority of children's media use takes place within a wider family dynamic. An understanding of this dynamic is crucial to understanding child media use as a whole.

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A Friend Request from Dear Old Dad: Associations Between Parent–Child Social Networking and Adolescent Outcomes

Cited by 51 publications

References 19 publications

Adolescents’ daily face-to-face and computer-mediated communication: Associations with autonomy and closeness to parents and friends.

Adolescents’ daily face-to-face and computer-mediated communication: Associations with autonomy and closeness to parents and friends.

Interactions between English‐speaking and Chinese‐speaking users and librarians on social networking sites

Parenting and Digital Media

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