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ArticleJournal of children and media2025

Is This a Return to Normal? Longitudinal Trajectories of Child Screen and Problematic Media Use Across the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States.

Lauren Eales, Olivia Giammanco, Gail M Ferguson

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Article in Journal of children and media, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Lauren EalesInstitute of Child Development, University of Minnesota.
Olivia GiammancoInstitute of Child Development, University of Minnesota.
Gail M FergusonInstitute of Child Development, University of Minnesota.

Funding

INSTITUTIONAL NATIONAL RESEARCH SERVICE AWARDT32MH015755 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA TWIN CITIES · PI Megan R Gunnar · 1985 to 2026
$5.9M
TRAINING THE SCIENCE OF CHILD MENTAL HEALTH TREATMENTT32MH073517 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI SUMA JACOB, John C. Piacentini · 2006 to 2026
$5.2M
NIMH NIH HHS T32 MH015755NIMH NIH HHS T32 MH073517
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This study uses both quantitative and qualitative data to examine how screen media use and problematic media use changed over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic (pre-onset, 3-months and 15-months post-onset). We examined changes in screen media use (time spent) and problematic media use (seemingly addicted behavior) in children ages 1.17-11.42 years across three time points (

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COVID-19 pandemicInteractional Theory of Child Problematic Media Usemixed methodsparenting and mediaproblematic media usescreen media use

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PMID40613021
PMCPMC12221234

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