Helping families help themselves: The (Un)intended impacts of a digital parenting program

Amaral, Sofia; Dinarte-Diaz, Lelys; Dominguez, Patricio; Perez-Vincent, Santiago M.

doi:10.1016/j.jdeveco.2023.103181

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“…44 This is a concern given that nudging has been known to increase participants' stress and anxiety during interventions. 45,46 It is necessary to understand the impact a nudge, or series of nudges, can have, particularly on at-risk groups and when covering sensitive topics (e.g., sexual health and well-being). This links back to the point above regarding the importance of identifying the demographic characteristics of the sample population targeted for any nudge intervention.…”

Section: How Can Nudging Interventions Become More Bidirectional?mentioning

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What is 'Nudging' and How Does it Change Behaviour in Education?

Koomar

2024

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This Learning Brief is part of the EdTech Hub Learning Brief Series, providing practical resources for people working to improve the use of technology in education. In this brief, we look at the behaviour change strategy of leveraging concise messages at strategic decision points (i.e., ‘nudging’) to influence the behaviour of a recipient towards a desired outcome. We focus on EdTech Hub’s work concerning nudge messaging. It builds on work from messaging interventions in Ghana and Kenya, linking these to the broader literature on the topic. It emphasises that although there is a strong and growing evidence base for nudge technologies, effective implementation remains dependent upon context-specific adaptation. It is not inevitable that nudge messaging interventions will lead to positive outcomes — indeed, outcomes are often mixed. It is therefore vital to understand the specific impacts of interventions on particular groups of recipients. We present findings and recommendations that should inform how nudging technologies in education are approached and what decision-makers need to consider in order to ensure uptake and minimise risks. Lastly, we explore areas that require further research, namely, the changing nature of nudging due to artificial intelligence, the safeguarding risks of nudging, persisting questions about cost-effectiveness, and how nudging can more specifically target learning. Keywords: Behavioural psychology; EdTech; education; messaging; nudging; participation An output of the EdTech Hub, https://edtechhub.org/

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Section: How Can Nudging Interventions Become More Bidirectional?mentioning

confidence: 99%

What is 'Nudging' and How Does it Change Behaviour in Education?

Koomar

2024

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“…Prior study showed that Children in the care of male caregivers are more likely to experience anxiety and stress. In contrast, female caregivers did not bring negative effects to children's mental health [14]. Besides, students' sex differences are also important: There is good evidence that the prevalence of depression, anxiety and suicidal behavior is 1.7 to 2.4 times higher in women than in men [15][16][17].…”

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Family Conflicts, Sleep and Mental Health in Chinese Adolescents

2024

J Psychiatry Cogn Behav

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The influence of family relationships extends significantly and enduringly in shaping the development of adolescents. Previous literature had a family environment scale (FES) to measure family relationships and conflicts. However, the FES did not measure conversation or work-life balance conflicts and it remains unclear whether these additional dimensions of family conflicts were associated with sleep and mental health issues in adolescents. We developed a new family conflict questionnaire with these two dimensions through semi-structural interviews and examined the relationships between family conflicts and sleep and mental health problems in sixty-five students in Beijing, China. We found that particularly in boys, elevated family conflicts in terms of conversation and work-life balance, were associated with more sleep and mental health issues including general anxiety. These findings suggest sex differences in the associations and future studies may investigate the causal relationships with a longitudinal design.

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