Predictors of Problematic Media Use in Middle Childhood: Project M.E.D.I.A

童年中期有问题的媒体使用的预测因素：M.E.D.I.A 项目

• 批准号: 10532540
• 负责人: Sarah Coyne
• 金额: $ 6.21万
• 依托单位: GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-09-09 至 2025-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10532540
• 关键词: Adolescence; Adolescent; Adult; Age; Behavior; Birth; Child; Child Development; Child Rearing; Childhood; Crying; Development; Devices; Early Intervention; Environment; Equilibrium; Exposure to; Goals; Growth and Development function; Habits; Hour; Impairment; Individual; Knowledge; Life; Longitudinal Studies; Methodology; Methods; Nature; Outcome; Parent-Child Relations; Parents; Pathologic; Play; Public Health; Research; Research Personnel; Role; Sampling; Schools; Technology; Time; Work; behavioral outcome; cohort; daily functioning; diaries; digital; digital media; early childhood; emerging adult; emotion regulation; executive function; high risk; innovation; longitudinal analysis; member; middle childhood; peer; prevent; prospective; sample fixation; social skills; time use

Predictors of Problematic Media use in Middle Childhood: Project M.E.D.I.A Abstract Media are a normative part of life for most children and adults with most individuals spending several hours each day using various media devices. However, as many as 10% of adolescents and emerging adults develop an addictive or pathological use of media, which impairs their ability to function in daily life. Existing research on pathological media use has focused on adolescents and emerging adults; however, trajectories of both pathological and healthy relationships with media likely begin well before adolescence. It is necessary to study the trajectories of media use, and in particular problematic and healthy media use, earlier in child development. This will allow researchers to discover the precursors of problematic use before pathological use of media has developed. The long-term goal is to understand media-related problematic behavior in childhood and its contribution to the development of pathological media use later in life. Problematic media use in early childhood involves a host of likely precursors to later pathological media use, including a fixation on media, tantrums or crying when media is removed, and sneaking or lying about media. The objective of this particular application involves three specific aims (1) to determine how early parenting (technoference and parent-child relationship quality) is associated with problematic media use during middle childhood, (2) to examine how child media content (child-directed and exploitative) is related to problematic media use over time, and (3) determine the transactional nature of problematic media use and child behavioral outcomes (social competence and executive functioning) in early childhood. The central hypothesis is that early parenting (technoference and parent/child relationship) and low-quality media will be associated with child problematic media use during middle childhood and such behavior will be associated with negative child outcomes. We propose to explore these aims in a 3-year longitudinal study in early childhood (from ages 5.5 to 7.5 years), utilizing our cohort of 500 children we have been studying since birth. We will do this by using several innovative methods including the CAFE toolkit (passive sensing apps that track time spent using media, time use diaries), and EMA to capture problematic media use in the moment. The proposed research is significant, because this longitudinal project will examine how early parenting and child media content relate to problematic media across the middle childhood period. This knowledge will help researchers identify high-risk individuals that might benefit from early intervention aimed at changing the trajectory of media exposure, to balance media with other activities, and to increase healthy media use. This may reduce the number of individuals who develop a pathological relationship with media later in development.

童年中期媒体使用问题的预测因素：项目M.E.D.I.A 抽象的 媒体是大多数儿童和成人生活的规范性一部分，大多数人花了几个 每天使用各种媒体设备小时。但是，多达10％的青少年和新兴成年人 发展媒体的上瘾或病理使用，这会损害其在日常生活中发挥作用的能力。现存的 病理媒体使用的研究集中在青少年和新兴成年人上。但是，，轨迹 与媒体的病理关系和健康的关系可能在青春期之前开始。有必要 研究媒体使用的轨迹，特别是有问题和健康的媒体使用的轨迹 发展。这将使研究人员能够在病理使用前发现有问题使用的前体 媒体的发展。长期目标是了解儿童时期与媒体有关的问题行为 以及它对以后生活中病理媒体使用的发展的贡献。媒体在早期使用 童年涉及以后的病理媒体使用的许多可能的先驱，包括媒体上的固定 发脾气或哭泣时，媒体被删除，偷偷摸摸或撒谎。这个特定的目的 申请涉及三个特定目标（1）来确定早期育儿的时间（技术和亲子 关系质量）与儿童中期有问题的媒体使用有关，（2）检查孩子的方式 媒体内容（指导儿童和剥削性）与有问题的媒体随着时间的使用有关，（3）确定 有问题的媒体使用和儿童行为结果的交易性质（社会能力和 高管功能）在童年时期。中心假设是早期育儿（技术上和 父母/儿童关系）和低质量的媒体将与中间的儿童有问题的媒体使用有关 童年和这种行为将与负面的儿童结局有关。我们建议探索这些目标 在童年的一项为期3年的纵向研究中（从5.5岁到7.5岁），利用我们的500名儿童 自出生以来，我们就一直在学习。我们将通过使用包括咖啡馆在内的几种创新方法来做到这一点 工具包（被动传感应用程序，这些应用程序跟踪使用媒体所花费的时间，使用时间日记）和EMA捕获 目前使用的媒体使用问题。拟议的研究很重要，因为这个纵向项目 将检查中间的育儿和儿童媒体内容与有问题的媒体的相关性 童年时期。这些知识将帮助研究人员确定可能从早期受益的高风险个人 旨在改变媒体曝光轨迹，平衡媒体与其他活动的干预措施以及 增加健康媒体的使用。这可能会减少发展病理关系的人数 随着媒体的发展。