A <scp>Goal‐Theoretic</scp> Framework for Parental <scp>Screen‐Time</scp> Monitoring Behavior

Owenz, Meghan B.; Fowers, Blaine J.

doi:10.1111/jftr.12384

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“…In their meta-analysis on effective strategies for reducing children's screen time, Jones et al [54] concluded that behavioral interventions tailored to individual needs appear to be particularly effective [54]. This coincides with others who have suggested that other family activities, the context and purpose of use within the family system, and barriers to screen time reduction must be considered [59,60]. Peláez et al [58] also found in their exploration of a 24-hour screen-free challenge that parents directly expressed a need for alternative activities to engage in instead of screen use for them to be successful.…”

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Pilot Study of a Screen-Free Week: Exploration of Changes in Parent and Child Screen Time, Parent Well-Being and Attitudes, and Parent-Child Relationship Quality

McDaniel,

Rasmussen,

Reining

et al. 2023

Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies

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Screen use is associated with a variety of potential impacts on child development, which has led to recommendations to regulate screen use. The current pilot study was conducted to explore the potential effects of implementing screen-free times (Screen-Free Week) on parent and child screen use, parent feelings and well-being, and parent-child interactions and relationships. Specifically, we evaluated the outcomes utilizing pre and postintervention self-report surveys with 24 parents (of a child age 5 years or younger). Overall, the screen-free week program decreased parent depressive symptoms, increased the parenting of child screen time and establishments of screen time limits, and decreased both parent and child screen time. Though the decrease in overall parent and child screen time was not maintained by 4 weeks after, effects on parent depression, child TV watching, and parent phone use specifically during child time were maintained. These findings support previous research emphasizing screen-free times as a viable method to increase intentionality around screen use. Interestingly, the program appears to have had the strongest effects on parent phone use around their child, suggesting the program may build awareness in parents and may cause them to change or desire to change their screen habits during family time. Although we saw initial shifts in parent-child play, effects were not maintained by week 4. Yet, the small changes parents made across one week were not sufficient to shift the overall parent-child relationship. While effects cannot be viewed as definitive, it is promising that shifts were seen in parent well-being and screen use for a relatively small amount of effort across one week.

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confidence: 75%

Pilot Study of a Screen-Free Week: Exploration of Changes in Parent and Child Screen Time, Parent Well-Being and Attitudes, and Parent-Child Relationship Quality

McDaniel,

Rasmussen,

Reining

et al. 2023

Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies

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“…For example, Ma et al (2022) found that parental engagement positively predicted children’s social competence, whereas children’s screen time negatively predicted their social competence [ 107 ]. Therefore, parents need to be trained to scaffold and support their young children, to build independence, agency, and empowerment by actively talking about engagement with digital technology [ 25 ] so that young children can be given enough knowledge about how to balance their digital usage and form healthy habits to improve their digital well-being [ 54 , 108 ].…”

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A Scoping Review of Digital Well-Being in Early Childhood: Definitions, Measurements, Contributors, and Interventions

Cao

2023

IJERPH

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Digital well-being concerns the balanced and healthy use of digital technology, and the existing studies in this area have focused on adolescents and adults. However, young children are more vulnerable to digital overuse and addiction than adults; thus, their digital well-being deserves empirical exploration. In this scoping review, we synthesized and evaluated 35 collected studies on young children’s digital use and their associated well-being that were published up to October of 2022 to understand the related definitions, measurements, contributors, and interventions. The synthesis of the evidence revealed that (1) there was no consensus about the definition of the concept of digital well-being; (2) there were no effective ways of measuring young children’s digital well-being; (3) both child factors (the duration and place of digital use, as well as the child’s demographic characteristics) and parent factors (digital use, parental perception, and mediation) contribute to young children’s well-being; and (4) there were some effective applications and digital interventions reported in the reviewed studies. This review contributes to the development of this concept by mapping the existing research on young children’s digital well-being, as well as proposing a model and identifying the research gaps for future studies.

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“…Other promising intervention strategies that have been associated with better outcomes for young children include focusing on changing parenting perceptions, substituting screen time with other behaviours, and parental modelling (Lewis et al, 2021). Focusing on shared family goal setting regarding screen use within a self-regulatory framework (Owenz & Fowers, 2020) may be one way to assist families to engage in healthier screen use practices.…”

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Managing Screen Use in the Under-Fives: Recommendations for Parenting Intervention Development

Morawska

Mitchell

Tooth

2023

Clin Child Fam Psychol Rev

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The impact of excessive screen use on children’s health and development is a public health concern and many countries have published recommendations to limit and guide the use of screen media in childhood. Despite this, international studies report that the majority of parents and children do not adhere to screen use recommendations. Existing research aiming to understand children’ screen use has largely focused on older children, and on demographic and structural aspects of the child’s environment. Parents play a central role in determining young children’s screen use and identify numerous barriers to developing healthy screen use practices with their children. However, no clear models exist that incorporate key parenting factors in understanding children’s screen use, which presents an impediment to intervention development. Likewise, while some evidence exists for interventions to improve children’s screen use behaviours, most are focused on older children and parental involvement has generally been limited. In this paper, we overview key factors associated with screen use in young children (< 5 years) and summarise the existing evidence base for interventions designed to support healthy screen use. This paper proposes a conceptual model linking aspects of parenting and the socio-ecological environment to young children’s screen use. Our proposed model could be used to design longitudinal studies of screen use predictors and outcomes, and inform intervention development. Finally, the paper provides key recommendations for future research, intervention development and testing.

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A Goal‐Theoretic Framework for Parental Screen‐Time Monitoring Behavior

Cited by 7 publications

References 79 publications

Pilot Study of a Screen-Free Week: Exploration of Changes in Parent and Child Screen Time, Parent Well-Being and Attitudes, and Parent-Child Relationship Quality

Pilot Study of a Screen-Free Week: Exploration of Changes in Parent and Child Screen Time, Parent Well-Being and Attitudes, and Parent-Child Relationship Quality

A Scoping Review of Digital Well-Being in Early Childhood: Definitions, Measurements, Contributors, and Interventions

Managing Screen Use in the Under-Fives: Recommendations for Parenting Intervention Development

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