Information and Communication Technologies Impact on Family Relationship

Romero-Ruiz, Karin; Echeverri-Sanchez, Laura; Peña-Plata, Juan; Vásquez-Giraldo, Stephanía; Aguilera-Cardona, Milady; Avendaño, Carolina Herazo; Valencia-Arias, Alejandro; Bran-Piedrahita, Lemy

doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2017.02.007

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“…Some studies have found that ICTs can strengthen family bonds and improve family cohesion through sharing online activities among family members, such as watching movies and co-playing video games [ 31 - 33 ]. Nevertheless, excessive use of ICTs may reduce time with family and create intergenerational conflicts [ 34 , 35 ], and is associated with poor family relationships [ 36 , 37 ].…”

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Sharing Family Life Information Through Video Calls and Other Information and Communication Technologies and the Association With Family Well-Being: Population-Based Survey

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BackgroundThe use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) for information sharing among family members is increasing dramatically. However, little is known about the associated factors and the influence on family well-being.ObjectiveThe authors investigated the pattern and social determinants of family life information sharing with family and the associations of different methods of sharing with perceived family health, happiness, and harmony (3Hs) in Hong Kong, where mobile phone ownership and Internet access are among the most prevalent, easiest, and fastest in the world.MethodsA territory-wide population-based telephone survey was conducted from January to August 2016 on different methods of family life information (ie, information related to family communication, relationships with family members, emotion and stress management) sharing with family members, including face-to-face, phone, instant messaging (IM), social media sites, video calls, and email. Family well-being was assessed by three single items on perceived family health, happiness, and harmony, with higher scores indicating better family well-being. Adjusted prevalence ratios were used to assess the associations of sociodemographic factors with family life information sharing, and adjusted beta coefficients for family well-being.ResultsOf 2017 respondents, face-to-face was the most common method to share family life information (74.45%, 1502/2017), followed by IM (40.86%, 824/2017), phone (28.10%, 567/2017), social media sites (11.91%, 240/2017), video calls (5.89%, 119/2017), and email (5.48%, 111/2017). Younger age and higher education were associated with the use of any (at least one) method, face-to-face, IM, and social media sites for sharing family life information (all P for trend <.01). Higher education was most strongly associated with the use of video calls (adjusted prevalence ratio=5.61, 95% CI 2.29-13.74). Higher household income was significantly associated with the use of any method, face-to-face, and IM (all P for trend <.05). Sharing family life information was associated with a higher level of perceived family well-being (beta=0.56, 95% CI 0.37-0.75), especially by face-to-face (beta=0.62, 95% CI 0.45-0.80) and video calls (beta=0.34, 95% CI 0.04-0.65). The combination of face-to-face and video calls was most strongly associated with a higher level of perceived family well-being (beta=0.81, 95% CI 0.45-1.16).ConclusionsThe differential use of ICTs to share family life information was observed. The prevalence of video calls was low, but associated with much better family well-being. The results need to be confirmed by prospective and intervention studies to promote the use of video calls to communicate and share information with family, particularly in disadvantaged groups.

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Sharing Family Life Information Through Video Calls and Other Information and Communication Technologies and the Association With Family Well-Being: Population-Based Survey

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“…Social researchers have been studying the impact of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for individuals, families, and work life in modern societies. Romero-Ruiz et al in [7] explored and identified perceptions that influence the use of ICT on family life. In modern families, adults and children are using the internet in daily basis.…”

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“…According to Children and Parents: Media Use and Attitudes Report in 2017; 83% of children aged from 12 to 15 have their own smart phones and 55% have their own tablets. Internet, software programs and mobile applications are used for school works, and more for entertainment purposes [6], [7], [8]. Few researchers noticed that family ties are becoming extremely difficult to maintain due to revolution of technology.…”

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“…However, the effect of ICT on modern family relationships was studied by Kerawalla et al [8] and Kraut et al [11] and concluded that family members spend less time in communicating and interacting face to face which may lead to damage family relationships. Romero-Ruiz et al showed that virtual communication exposes families to feel lacking of affection [7]. On the other hand, Family members benefit of ICT to manage time, money and home activities.…”

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On Developing an Integrated Family Mobile Application

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Farouq²,

Obeidallah³

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Now-a-days mobile applications have been seen as the most effective, popular and powerful technologies and this is due to the widespread of mobile devices. Moreover, the raising power of mobile devices has a great impact on people of all ages; and more specifically on social relationships including interaction between parents and kids. Therefore, this paper presents a highly integrated Family Mobile Application (FMA) that provides a wide range of services to control, manage, organize and support the different daily tasks of family members effectively. The essential tasks of the FMA are mainly described in terms of facilitating the daily life routine and responsibilities, enhancing the communication between the family members (in different aspects) and supporting the Augmented Reality (AR) which is directed to the children of the family to support educational goals in particular. Moreover, a website has been established to enrich the functionality of the proposed FMA application. The FMA has been analysed, designed, implemented and evaluated on real-world users of the system. The evaluation was con-ducted in terms of the usability testing that considers satisfaction, simplicity and ease of use. More details of the real evaluation are illustrated and presented.

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“…The family and its members bring their contribution to shaping and determining an individual behavior because the family acts out as a model to emotional background and behavior structure which serve as the social patterns for an individual throughout the whole life and undoubtedly puts a modifying effect on his/her behavior in a certain life period (Repetti & Wang, 2017;Romero-Ruiz, Echeverri-Sánchez, Peña-Plata, Vásquez-Giraldo, & Bran-Piedrahita, 2017;Runcan, 2012). The climate in a family and the peculiarities in family relationships constantly affect both a child and other family members, regardless the age (Sapin, Widmer, & Iglesias, 2016;Selvarajan, Singh, & Cloninger, 2016;Vandermeer, Kotelnikova, Simms, & Hayden, 2018).…”

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