Family Socioeconomic Status Moderates Associations Between Television Viewing and School Readiness Skills

Ribner, Andrew; Fitzpatrick, Caroline; Blair, Clancy

doi:10.1097/dbp.0000000000000425

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“…The results showed that the association between children’s screen time and cognitive development was unclear, waiting for more evidence to figure it out. Children with excessive screen time were associated with an increased risk of delayed language development [ 28 , 66 , 67 , 69 , 71 , 72 ], language learning problems [ 23 , 60 , 73 ], mathematics learning problems [ 23 , 68 , 69 ], and reading problems [ 68 , 70 ]. A total of four studies reported a negative association between screen time and motor developments, and children being exposed to excessive screen time were more likely to suffer from fine motor [ 73 ] development problems and gross motor [ 23 , 73 ] development problems.…”

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The Relationships between Screen Use and Health Indicators among Infants, Toddlers, and Preschoolers: A Meta-Analysis and Systematic Review

Cheng

Sha

et al. 2020

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Evidence suggests that excessive screen time in early childhood is related to children’s physical and mental health. This study aimed to review the relationships between screen media use and several health indicators in infants, toddlers, and preschoolers. A systematic search was conducted by two independent reviewers on PubMed, Web of Science, Embase, and Cochrane Library to identify the eligible studies, with an end date of 13 August 2019. Included studies (published in English) were peer-reviewed and met the determinate population (children aged 0–7 years with screen media exposure and related health outcomes). The AHRQ, NOS, and the Cochrane Handbook were used to evaluate the cross-sectional study, cohort study, and RCT, respectively. A meta-analysis and narrative syntheses were employed separately. Eighty studies (23 studies for meta-analysis) met the inclusion criteria for the systematic review. Strong evidence of the meta-analysis suggested that excessive screen time was associated with overweight/obesity and shorter sleep duration among toddlers and preschoolers. Excessive screen use was associated with various health indicators in physical, behavioral, and psychosocial aspects. Better-quality research on newer media devices, on various kinds of contents in young children, and on dose–response relationships between excessive screen use and health indicators are needed to update recommendations of screen use.

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The Relationships between Screen Use and Health Indicators among Infants, Toddlers, and Preschoolers: A Meta-Analysis and Systematic Review

Cheng

Sha

et al. 2020

IJERPH

104

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“…Consistently with existing literature in the field, school readiness scores were strongly positively associated with better executive function scores in the cognitive assessment and strongly negatively associated with the parent-completed inventory. The three aspects of executive function (working memory, inhibition/attention and cognitive flexibility) assessed during the study are considered fundamental for school readiness [ 44 ]. Greater ability in cognitive flexibility, attention, inhibition and working memory is crucial in self-regulation and subsequently in allowing children to organise their thinking, minimise reactivity, increase social competence and ultimately support early learning, school readiness and school achievement [ 45 – 47 ].…”

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Bedtime routines child wellbeing & development

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BackgroundBedtime routines has shown important associations with areas associated with child wellbeing and development. Research into bedtime routines is limited with studies mainly focusing on quality of sleep. The objectives of the present study were to examine the relationship between bedtime routines and a variety of factors associated with child wellbeing and to examine possible determinants of bedtime routines.MethodsA total of 50 families with children between 3 and 5 years old took part in the study. Data on bedtime routines, parenting styles, school readiness, children’s dental health, and executive function were collected.ResultsChildren in families with optimal bedtime routines showed better performance in terms of executive function, specifically working memory (t (44)= − 8.51, p ≤ .001), inhibition and attention (t (48)= − 9.70, p ≤ .001) and cognitive flexibility (t (48)= − 13.1, p ≤ .001). Also, children in households with optimal bedtime routines scored higher in their readiness for school (t (48)= 6.92, p ≤ .001) and had better dental health (U = 85.5, p = .011). Parents in households with suboptimal bedtime routines showed worse performance on all measures of executive function including working memory (t (48)= − 10.47, p ≤ .001), inhibition-attention (t (48)= − 10.50, p ≤ .001) and cognitive flexibility (t (48)= − 13.6, p ≤ .001). Finally, parents with optimal bedtime routines for their children deployed a more positive parenting style in general (i.e. authoritative parenting) compared to those with suboptimal bedtime routines (t (48)= − 6.45, p ≤ .001).ConclusionThe results of the present study highlight the potentially important role of bedtime routines in a variety of areas associated with child wellbeing and the need for further research.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (10.1186/s12889-018-5290-3) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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“…Exposure to electronic screen‐based media might be particularly detrimental to the development of EF; however, evidence to date is mixed and differences in results might depend upon context or platform of viewing, media content, or child age. In groups of older children, increased time spent watching television is negatively associated with EF, perhaps due to its impact on attentional capacities (Nathanson, Alade, Sharp, Rasmussen, & Christy, ; Ribner, Fitzpatrick, & Blair, ). This has been shown experimentally: Lillard and Peterson () found that 4‐year‐old children who watched a fast‐paced cartoon, rather than either an educational cartoon or no television, performed significantly worse on EF tasks immediately after watching.…”

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Infant screen exposure links to toddlers' inhibition, but not other EF constructs: A propensity score study

McHarg

Ribner

Devine

et al. 2020

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Technology is pervasive in homes of families with young children, despite evidence for negative associations between infant exposure to screen‐based media and cognitive development that has led the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) to discourage parents from exposing children under the age of 18 months to any kind of screen time (AAP, 2016). Here, we apply a propensity score matching approach to estimate relations between electronic screen‐based media use in infancy and executive function in early toddlerhood. In an international sample of 416 firstborn infants, parental report of regular exposure to screen‐based media at 4 months predicted poorer performance on a test of inhibition at 14 months, but was unrelated to either cognitive flexibility or working memory at 14 months. Results of this study are therefore consistent with the view that early exposure to screen‐based media adversely affects the development of executive function.

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Family Socioeconomic Status Moderates Associations Between Television Viewing and School Readiness Skills

Cited by 60 publications

References 33 publications

The Relationships between Screen Use and Health Indicators among Infants, Toddlers, and Preschoolers: A Meta-Analysis and Systematic Review

The Relationships between Screen Use and Health Indicators among Infants, Toddlers, and Preschoolers: A Meta-Analysis and Systematic Review

Bedtime routines child wellbeing & development

Infant screen exposure links to toddlers' inhibition, but not other EF constructs: A propensity score study

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