ArticleFrontiers in psychology2022
Is the Association Between Early Childhood Screen Media Use and Effortful Control Bidirectional? A Prospective Study During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
16 citing papers in PubMed, 31 citations in OpenAlex.
- Parent personality, child temperament, and digital media: Pathways to language development in early childhood.Developmental psychology · 2026Article
- Problematic Use of Electronic Devices in Preschool Children: A Parent Coaching Program for the Prevention of Screen Addiction.Child psychiatry and human development · 2026Article
- The Relationship Between Temperament, Screen Exposure, and Psychological Adjustment in Preschool Children.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Screen exposure in relation to cool and hot executive functions in preschoolers: parenting processes as mediators and parental growth mindset as moderator.BMC psychology · 2026Article
- The Impact of Parental Media Attitudes and Mediation Behaviors on Young Children's Problematic Media Use in China: An Actor-Partner Interdependence Mediation Model Analysis.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 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
- Eye health behaviors and parental influencing factors among preschool children in Korea: a cross-sectional study.Child health nursing research · 2025Article
- The Intersection of COVID Lockdown Policies and Parent Resources with Children's Media Exposure in Canada, the United States, Israel, Sweden, and New Zealand.Journal of children and media · 2025Article
- The role of frontal pole cortex and personalized feedback in sustaining future-oriented healthy dietary behaviors.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Early Childhood Development and Mental Health: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Comparative Studies.Psychology international · 2024Article
- Maternal Phubbing and Problematic Media Use in Preschoolers: The Independent and Interactive Moderating Role of Children's Negative Affectivity and Effortful Control.Psychology research and behavior management · 2024Article
- Difficult Toddler Temperament - Prevalence and Associated Factors at 18-Month Follow-Up of a Birth Cohort.Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment · 2024Article
- Reducing harm and promoting positive media use strategies: new perspectives in understanding the impact of preschooler media use on health and development.Psicologia, reflexao e critica : revista semestral do Departamento de Psicologia da UFRGS · 2023Review
- Prospective associations between child screen time and parenting stress and later inattention symptoms in preschoolers during the COVID-19 pandemic.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- The temperament of pre-teens at risk of educational and social exclusion.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Meeting preschool screen time recommendations: which parental strategies matter?Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
6 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Individual differences in effortful control, a component of temperament, reflecting the ability to use attention and other cognitive processes to self-regulate emotion and behavior, contribute to child academic adjustment, social competence, and wellbeing. Research has linked excessive screen time in early childhood to reduced self-regulation ability. Furthermore, research suggests that parents are more likely to use screens with children who have more challenging temperaments, such as low levels of effortful control. Since screen time by children between the ages of 0 and 18 has increased during the COVID-19 pandemic, it remains timely to investigate the developmental pattern of association between child screen media use and effortful control. We hypothesize that higher levels of screen media intake at age 3.5 will be associated with lower effortful control at age 4.5 and that lower effortful control at 3.5 will contribute to more screen media intake at age 4.5. This study draws on participants followed longitudinally over the span of 2-years for an investigation of Canadian preschoolers' screen media use during the pandemic (
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.