ArticleFrontiers in psychology2020
Associations Between Children's Media Use and Language and Literacy Skills.
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- Examining the relationship between language development, executive function, and screen time: A systematic review.PloS one · 2024Pooled it
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- Annual Research Review: How did COVID-19 affect young children's language environment and language development? A scoping review.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2025Article
- Intertwining social, affective, and digital dynamics: a masspersonal communication model to analyze home language maintenance.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Eating Behavior, Sleep Disorders and Digital Game Addiction in Children and Determination of Associated Factors by CHAID Analysis.Iranian journal of public health · 2024Article
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- Familial context influences media usage in 0- to 4-year old children.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Screen Time of Preschool-Aged Children and Their Mothers, and Children's Language Development.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Home learning environment and out-of-home activities: their relations to prosocial behaviour and peer relationships in primary school children.Current psychology (New Brunswick, N.J.) · 2022Article
- Exposure to screens and children's language development in the EDEN mother-child cohort.Scientific reports · 2021Article
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Abstract
Media use is a pervasive aspect of children's home experiences but is often not considered in studies of the home learning environment. Media use could be detrimental to children's language and literacy skills because it may displace other literacy-enhancing activities like shared reading and decrease the quantity and quality of caregiver-child interaction. Thus, the current study asked whether media use is associated with gains in children's language and literacy skills both at a single time point and across a school year and whether age moderates any association. Children (
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