ArticleComputers in human behavior2023
Parents' Desire to Change Phone Use: Associations with Objective Smartphone Use and Feelings About Problematic Use and Distraction.
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- Heavy users, mobile gamers, and social networkers: Patterns of objective smartphone use in parents of infants and associations with parent depression, sleep, parenting, and problematic phone use.Human behavior and emerging technologies · 2024Article
- Daily smartphone use predicts parent depressive symptoms, but parents' perceptions of responsiveness to their child moderate this effect.Frontiers in developmental psychology · 2024Article
- Tiny Screens, Big Impact: Effects of Maternal Smartphone Use on Maternal and Infants' Physiological and Behavioral Stress and Interaction Dynamics.Infancy : the official journal of the International Society on Infant StudiesArticle
- Infants Recognize the Negative Impact of Phone Distraction on Performance.Infancy : the official journal of the International Society on Infant StudiesArticle
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Abstract
We examined objective smartphone use (via a mobile sensing application) and self-reported desire to change phone use among a sample of 268 U.S. parents of infants. Using the Transtheoretical Stages of Change model as a conceptual foundation, we contextualized their attitudes and behaviors and explored how phone use and desire to change relate to perceptions of distraction and problematic phone use around their child. Latent profile analysis of parents' precontemplation, contemplation, and action scores revealed two classes-precontemplators (15%) and contemplators (85%). Contemplators-those considering or desiring change-showed more bedtime phone use and general social networking than precontemplors; however, there were no significant differences between groups on other objective use measures (e.g., total daily duration of phone use, phone use around child, etc.). Contemplators also showed greater perceptions of problematic use around their child and parenting distraction. Moreover, parents' problematic use and distraction were predictive of higher contemplation scores, even after controlling for demographic and objective phone use variables. Taken together, these results suggest that perceptions of phone use as problematic may be more important than actual phone habits, especially total phone use duration, for desire to change. Suggestions for future research and intervention are provided.
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