Fighting over smartphones? Parents' excessive smartphone use, lack of control over children's use, and conflict

Matthes, Jörg; Thomas, Marina F.; Stević, Anja; Schmuck, Desirée

doi:10.1016/j.chb.2020.106618

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“…Parental mediation refers to the intervention strategies that parents employ to guide children's appropriate smartphone usage and minimize its negative consequences [35]. In this study, maternal mediation did not affect children's PSU, which is inconsistent with previous study findings [17,36,37]. However, maternal mediation was significantly correlated with smartphone usage time by purpose, parent-child communication, and parenting style.…”

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Effect of Maternal Factors on Problematic Smartphone Use among Elementary School Children

Lee

Kim

2021

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Mothers play a key role in ensuring their children’s healthy life. This study aimed to identify the maternal factors affecting problematic smartphone use in children. We adopted a cross-sectional descriptive design using structured questionnaires. Participants were fourth to sixth grade elementary school students in Korea (n = 184). The following maternal factors were evaluated: maternal mediation, children’s perception of mothers’ smartphone use, mother–child communication, and parenting style. Data regarding maternal factors’ effect on problematic smartphone use were analyzed by computing descriptive statistics and logistic regression analysis using SPSS Win 27.0. The results show that the maternal factors that influenced problematic smartphone use in children were maternal control over smartphone usage (odds ratio (OR) = 5.10, 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.33–19.60), smartphone usage time for social network service (OR = 1.52, 95% CI: 1.10–2.01), and problematic mother–child communication (OR = 1.07, 95% CI: 1.00–1.14). Therefore, to promote appropriate smartphone use among school children, it is necessary to develop an intervention comprising maternal supervision of their children’s smartphones, guidance provision for social network service usage, and strategies for the reinforcement of positive mother–child communication.

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Effect of Maternal Factors on Problematic Smartphone Use among Elementary School Children

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Kim

2021

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“…In this situation, parents may have less control over their children’s maintenance of healthy behaviors [ 17 ], and they may find it necessary to re-negotiate rules with their children that, prior to the pandemic, were less difficult to manage (e.g., sharing common spaces, using smartphones/devices) or even non-existent (e.g., restrictions on outside activities). For example, under normative circumstances, time spent using technology is typically an “arena of conflict” between children and parents [ 18 , 19 ]. During the lockdown, use of electronic devices, screen time, and sedentary activities increased among children and adolescents [ 20 , 21 ], making this already contentious arena more difficult for parents to manage.…”

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Mothers’ and Children’s Mental Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic Lockdown: The Mediating Role of Parenting Stress

Babore

Trumello

Lombardi

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Child Psychiatry Hum Dev

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The present study, carried out during the first peak of the COVID-19 outbreak in Italy, aimed at investigating the mental health of mothers and children during the nationwide lockdown. More specifically, the study investigated children’s depression and mothers’ individual distress and parenting stress, in comparison with normative samples. The mediating effect of mothers’ parenting stress on the relationship between mothers’ individual distress and children’s depression was also explored. Finally, the study analyzed whether children’s biological sex and age moderated the structural paths of the proposed model. A sample of 206 Italian mothers and their children completed an online survey. Mothers were administered self-report questionnaires investigating individual distress and parenting stress; children completed a standardized measure of depression. Mothers’ individual distress and parenting stress and children’s depression were higher than those recorded for the normative samples. Mothers’ parenting stress was found to mediate the association between mothers’ individual distress and children’s depression. With respect to children, neither biological sex nor age emerged as significant moderators of this association, highlighting that the proposed model was robust and invariant. During the current and future pandemics, public health services should support parents—and particularly mothers—in reducing individual distress and parenting stress, as these are associated with children’s depression.

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“…However, in general, it is considered that mothers spend more time in contact with their children than fathers and play a central role in raising children (Collins & Russell, 1991 ). When the social learning theory and mirror neuron theory are applied, in spite of inferring the relative strength of mother–child interaction compared to father-child interaction in children’s smartphone addiction, smartphone-related studies (Matthes et al, 2021 ; Son et al, 2021 ) have been not distinguished between fathers and mothers, and detailed considerations on the influence of mothers were not addressed.…”

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A Longitudinal Relationship Between Mother’s Smartphone Addiction to Child’s Smartphone Addiction

Jeong

Kim

Ryu

et al. 2022

Int J Ment Health Addiction

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Children are more likely to become addicted as they become accustomed to using smartphones, and as they observe and imitate their parents using smartphones. This study aims to confirm longitudinally the effect of mother’s smartphone addiction on children’s smartphone addiction. Latent growth modeling was used to analyze longitudinal relationships between 3615 pairs of children and their mothers from the Korean Children and Youth Panel Survey (KCYPS) (2018–2020). As a result, both the mothers and children’s smartphone addiction significantly increased over time. The initial value of the mother’s smartphone addiction was found to have a significant effect on the child's initial value and the change rate. Moreover, children’s smartphone addiction change rate was significantly affected by the change rate of the mother’s smartphone addiction. To intervene in children’s smartphone addiction, a family-level approach, as well as parental addiction, must also be addressed, and a preventive approach should focus on those with a low risk of addiction.

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Fighting over smartphones? Parents' excessive smartphone use, lack of control over children's use, and conflict

Cited by 37 publications

References 44 publications

Effect of Maternal Factors on Problematic Smartphone Use among Elementary School Children

Effect of Maternal Factors on Problematic Smartphone Use among Elementary School Children

Mothers’ and Children’s Mental Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic Lockdown: The Mediating Role of Parenting Stress

A Longitudinal Relationship Between Mother’s Smartphone Addiction to Child’s Smartphone Addiction

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