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Justin A. Haegele; Fenghua Sun; Chunxiao Li; Kwok Ng; Jihyun Lee; Stefanie Hwee Chee Ang; Maria Luiza Tanure Alves; Hannah Yang; Yandan Wu; Jernice Sing Yee Tan; Pauli Rintala; Wendy Yajun Huang; Sean Healy; Isabella dos Santos Alves; Andre Lisandro Schliemann; Hyokju Maeng; Eija Karna; Ding Ding – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2024
This cross-sectional observational study sought to examine the environmental correlates of physical activity and screen-time among youth with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Parents of youth with ASD (n = 1,165) from seven countries/regions provided responses to an online survey form measuring environmental correlates (i.e., physical activity…
Descriptors: Youth, Parents, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Physical Activity Level
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Turco, Rosa G.; Lesaux, Nonie K.; Jones, Stephanie M. – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2023
Studies suggest that mobile screen media can play a positive role in young children's language and literacy development. However, the role of mobile screen media in the home literacy environment of pre-school aged children has not been widely explored. Currently, it is unclear whether the amount of time on mobile devices has any association with…
Descriptors: Handheld Devices, Mass Media Use, Video Games, Computer Games
Hollyn Sanders Maddox – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Research into children's screen time has primarily focused on the quantity of screen exposure. The purpose of this study was to determine to what extent, if any, there was an association between young children's media screen time and the quality of joint media engagement between parent, child, and media in the home. The problem addressed was that…
Descriptors: Young Children, Mass Media Use, Television Viewing, Video Games
Alexis K. Chapman – Online Submission, 2024
The present study investigates how social media and screen time usage negatively affect High School students' body image and overall perception of confidence. It was found that screen time is a neutral factor when considering how deeply it affects one's confidence. Almost no matter what, students seem to end up worse, whether that be…
Descriptors: High School Students, Self Esteem, Self Concept, Social Media
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Shaocong Ma; Jingchen Li; Eva E. Chen – Early Education and Development, 2024
Despite the wide usage of screen media among young children, less is known about the relationships between children's screen time and their social competence development as impacted by family-related factors. Here, we investigated parents' engagement, children's screen time, and their social competence among Taiwanese Chinese children's families…
Descriptors: Young Children, Foreign Countries, Social Development, Mass Media Use
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Suggate, Sebastian Paul; Martzog, Philipp – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
During typical childhood interactions with screen-media, two features are prominent. First, input is dominated by audio-visual signals and second, these predominately provide children with ready-made images, potentially negating effortful mental imagery construction. We present a two-year longitudinal study on a sample of 109 preschool children.…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Mass Media Use, Television Viewing, Video Games
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Konca, Ahmet Sami – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2022
This study aimed to explore the digital environments of 3-6-year-old children within the home setting. A total of 537 children aged 3-6 years and their parents participated in the study. The results of the study revealed that the children live in digitally rich home environments. Parents usually limited the screen time of the children, or…
Descriptors: Young Children, Parents, Family Environment, Handheld Devices
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Alwaely, Suad Abdalkareem; Minnullina, Rosalia; Fedorova, Elena; Lazareva, Yuliya – Cogent Education, 2023
Not only children but also adults now spend much more time in front of the screen (computers, laptops, tablets, phones, TVs, Play Station, other game consoles, etc.) for various reasons: work, study, a lot of free time, communication, entertainment, information retrieval. The aim of this paper is to examine how the time spent in front of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Parents, Addictive Behavior
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Fitzpatrick, Caroline; Boers, Elroy – Health Education & Behavior, 2022
Youth today spend a tremendous amount of time with digital media. The purpose of the present study was to estimate developmental associations between screen media use between the ages of 15 and 17 and corresponding changes in prosocial behavior. Participants (N = 1,509) were part of the Quebec Longitudinal Study of Child Development, a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Mass Media Use, Prosocial Behavior
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Maree Howard; Shahid A. Akhund – International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy, 2024
Background: Many governments worldwide have established guidelines regarding children's physical activity and sedentary behaviors linked to positive health outcomes. While research has established low adherence to these guideline levels, it is unclear whether parents' knowledge, perceptions, and support around these behaviors might be barriers to…
Descriptors: Children, Parents, Knowledge Level, Parent Attitudes
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Chen, Chen; Hardjo, Stephanie; Sonnert, Gerhard; Hui, Jiaojiao; Sadler, Philip M. – International Journal of STEM Education, 2023
Background: Digital media are pervasive in the lives of young people and provide opportunities for them to learn about STEM. Multiple theories argue that the STEM media environment may shape how youth see a STEM career in their future. Yet, little is known about how pre-college digital media consumption may be related to students' STEM career…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, STEM Careers, Student Interests, Mass Media Role
Yifan Zhang – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Screen media has become increasingly pervasive in our everyday lives and has profoundly changed the way people communicate and interact with each other. However, we are still unclear about the long-term influence of screen media use on our physical health, mental health, and social wellbeing. Children and adolescents are in an important stage of…
Descriptors: Mass Media Use, Social Media, Information Technology, Television Viewing
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Rao, Nirmala; Chan, Stephanie W. Y.; Su, Yufen; Mirpuri, Sheena; Richards, Ben; Sun, Jin; Li, Zhang; Ip, Patrick – Early Child Development and Care, 2023
Changes in physical activity levels and increases in screen time across different cohorts may affect young children's motor skill development (MSD). This study examined cohort differences in MSD in China. Four-year-olds living in Shanghai and in Guizhou province were assessed, in individual sessions, in 2013 (n = 230) and in 2017 (n = 446).…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Motor Development, Physical Activity Level
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McGowan, Amanda L.; Gerde, Hope K.; Pfeiffer, Karin A.; Pontifex, Matthew B. – Early Education and Development, 2023
Research Findings: The present study examined the associations among meeting 24-hour movement behavior recommendations set by the World Health Organization (2019) and young children's self-regulation and quantity estimation skills in a sample of 123 children (n = 65 female; 4.9 ± 0.7 years) in mid-Michigan. Meeting screen time recommendations…
Descriptors: Motion, Child Behavior, Guidelines, Computation
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Tatar, Burcu H.; Gerde, Hope K. – Reading Teacher, 2023
Young children's engagement with digital tools (e.g., tablets, smartphones, ebooks/storyapps, and mobile apps) is increasing globally. This is inevitable in our digital world. Even though children primarily use digital technology for entertainment purposes, these tools offer valuable learning opportunities too. Importantly, adults can provide and…
Descriptors: Young Children, Parent Teacher Cooperation, Parent Participation, Mass Media Use
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