ArticleEmotion (Washington, D.C.)2023
Silencing screaming with screens: The longitudinal relationship between media emotion regulation processes and children's emotional reactivity, emotional knowledge, and empathy.
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- Is screen time associated with children's physiological regulation? Answers from a 3-year prospective study before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.Developmental psychology · 2026Article
- Watching live performances enhances subjective and physiological emotional responses compared to viewing the same performance on screen.IBRO neuroscience reports · 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
- Emotional Reactivity and Behavioral Problems in Preschoolers: The Interplay of Parental Stress, Media-Related Coping, and Child Screen Time.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Digital screen exposure and emotional symptoms in preschool children: mediation by parent-child relationship and moderation by peer relationships.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- The Growth of Problematic Media Use Over Early Childhood: Associations with Long-Term Social and Emotional Outcomes.Computers in human behavior · 2024Article
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Abstract
Many parents use screens to regulate their young children's emotions. We know very little, however, about how this parenting practice is related to the development of emotional competencies (i.e., emotional reactivity, emotion knowledge, and empathy) over time. The current longitudinal study examined bidirectional associations between media emotion regulation and various emotional competencies across a 1-year period during early childhood (between ages 3.5 and 4.5 on average). Participants included 269 child/parent dyads who completed a number of in-home tasks and questionnaires. Results revealed that higher levels of media emotion regulation were associated with worse emotional knowledge and empathy and higher emotional reactivity at the cross-sectional level. However, early media emotion regulation was associated with higher levels of child empathy 1 year later. We discuss these results in the context of general parenting practices and encourage future research on the topic with a focus on how these processes develop over time. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).
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