ArticleComputers in human behavior2021
Tantrums, toddlers and technology: Temperament, media emotion regulation, and problematic media use in early childhood.
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57 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 117 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Problematic Media Use among Children up to the Age of 10: A Systematic Literature Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Pooled it
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- Developmental Pathways Linking Maternal Depressive Symptoms with Parenting Quality and Preschool Children's Screen Time: The Role of Children's Behavioural Problems.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Parent personality, child temperament, and digital media: Pathways to language development in early childhood.Developmental psychology · 2026Article
- Views of preschool-age children's screen time among mothers with low incomes.Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43) · 2026Article
- Temporal associations between parents' daily reports of media motivations, infant affect, and parenting behavior.Developmental psychology · 2026Article
- Bidirectional relationships of parenting stress, media use for behavior management, and children's behavior problems from 9 to 30 months.Developmental psychology · 2026Article
- Connected parents, connected children: the relationship of smartphone, social media, and AI with parenting and children's tech consumption in Türkiye.BMC pediatrics · 2026Article
- Digital Ecosystems, Children, and Adolescents: Policy Statement.Pediatrics · 2026Article
- Digital Ecosystems, Children, and Adolescents: Technical Report.Pediatrics · 2026Review
- Development and Validation of the Parental Media Motivations (MEMO) Scales for Child and Parent Media Use in the United States.Journal of children and media · 2026Article
- Parenting stress and young children's problematic media use: the serial mediating roles of parental phubbing and parent-child conflict.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- The relationship between parental phubbing and preschool children's social-emotional competence: a serial mediation model of family intimacy and parent-child attachment.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Early Screen Exposure and Preadolescent Outcomes: A Longitudinal Follow-Up on Dysregulation, Academic Achievements, and Capacity to Be Alone.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Screen time, problematic media use, and clinical concerns in the ABCD Study: Differences by sex and race/ethnicity.Development and psychopathology · 2025Article
- Bidirectional and Temporal Associations between Daily Reports of Parental Burnout, Parenting Experiences, and Motivations for Family Screen Use.Translational issues in psychological science · 2025Article
- Does Parental Media Soothing Lead to the Risk of Callous-Unemotional Behaviors in Early Childhood? Testing a Moderated Mediation Model.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Promoting Healthy Screen Media Use in Young Children With Externalizing Behavior Problems Through an Adapted Parenting Intervention: Results of an Open Trial.Cognitive and behavioral practice · 2025Article
- Problematic Digital Technology Use Measures in Children Aged 0 to 6 Years: Scoping Review.JMIR mental health · 2025Article
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Abstract
Parents regularly use media to help regulate their child's difficult emotions, particularly for those with a more difficult temperament. However, no research has examined how this may be related to the development of problematic (or addictive-like) media use in early childhood. The purpose of the study was to examine associations between temperament, parental media emotion regulation, and problematic media use in young children, using both questionnaires and observational data. Participants included 269 toddlers (2-3 years old) and their parents, who completed several observational tasks and questionnaires. Analyses revealed that higher levels of media emotion regulation was associated with more problematic media use and more extreme emotions when media was removed in toddlers. Additionally, temperament (specifically negative affect and surgency) was related to problematic media and extreme emotions and was mediated by media emotion regulation. Parents should avoid using media as a primary way of regulating their children's emotions as this may be related to the development of problematic media strategies during infancy.
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