ArticleChild development2018
Technoference: Parent Distraction With Technology and Associations With Child Behavior Problems.
Article in Child development, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 130 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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130 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Screen Use, Child Development and Family Involvement in Children Aged 2-7 Years: A Systematic Review.Journal of paediatrics and child health · 2026Pooled it
- The association between parental phubbing and pathological digital use among children and adolescents: a meta-analysis of Chinese samples.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Pooled it
- Parental Technoference and Child Problematic Media Use: Meta-Analysis.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Pooled it
- More boring, more craving for smartphone use? The moderating role of fear of missing out.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2025Trial
- "I've let screens take over": Maternal Guilt About Media and Relations to Children's Problematic Media Use.Computers in human behavior · 2027Article
- Maternal Smartphone Use and Regulatory Disorders of the Infant: A Post Hoc Analysis of the SKKIPPI Cohort Study.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Artificial intelligence interaction is not equivalent to social interaction: Rethinking artificial intelligence-mediated digital exposure in early childhood.Pediatric investigation · 2026Review
- Maternal Loneliness and Technoference During Early Childhood: The Mediating Roles of Nomophobia and Social Media Addiction.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2026Article
- Associations Between Caregiver Smartphone Use in a Child's Presence and Motor Skills and Executive Function in Preschoolers: SUNRISE International Study.Child: care, health and development · 2026Article
- Prospective Association Between Parental Problematic Smartphone Use and Early Childhood Internalizing Symptoms.Child: care, health and development · 2026Article
- Association Between Parental Problematic Internet Use and Adolescent Depression.Child psychiatry and human development · 2026Article
- Social Media Use and the Quality of Family Relationships: A Six-Wave Longitudinal Study of Within-Family Effects from Age 10 to 20.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2026Article
- Parents and children's executive functions: the role of parental technoference.Cognitive processing · 2026Article
- The Impact of Maternal Phubbing on Toddlers' Language Development and Subsequent Social Development: A Three-Month Time-Lagged Analysis.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- How School-Related Internet Use Shapes Teens' Learning, Communication, Academic Stress, Online Behavior: A Qualitative Study.Academic pediatrics · 2026Article
- The shadow of parental phubbing on adolescents' psychological adjustment: roles of problematic social media use and social support.BMC psychology · 2026Article
- How Perceived Parental Technoference Relates to Adolescent Smartphone Addiction: Evidence from a Moderated Mediation Model.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Parent-child Technoference and Adolescent Problematic Social Media Use: a Moderated Serial Mediation Model.The Psychiatric quarterly · 2026Article
- Digital Ecosystems, Children, and Adolescents: Technical Report.Pediatrics · 2026Review
- Maternal technoference decreases brain-to-brain synchrony during mother-infant interaction.Scientific reports · 2026Article
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Abstract
Heavy parent digital technology use has been associated with suboptimal parent-child interactions, but no studies examine associations with child behavior. This study investigates whether parental problematic technology use is associated with technology-based interruptions in parent-child interactions, termed "technoference," and whether technoference is associated with child behavior problems. Parent reports from 170 U.S. families (child M
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