Coyne Sarah M, Radesky Jenny, Collier Kevin M, Gentile Douglas A, Linder Jennifer Ruh, Nathanson Amy I, Rasmussen Eric E, Reich Stephanie M, Rogers Jean
School of Family Life, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah;
Division of Developmental Behavioral Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Pediatrics. 2017 Nov;140(Suppl 2):S112-S116. doi: 10.1542/peds.2016-1758N.
Understanding the family dynamic surrounding media use is crucial to our understanding of media effects, policy development, and the targeting of individuals and families for interventions to benefit child health and development. The Families, Parenting, and Media Workgroup reviewed the relevant research from the past few decades. We find that child characteristics, the parent-child relationship, parental mediation practices, and parents' own use of media all can influence children's media use, their attitudes regarding media, and the effects of media on children. However, gaps remain. First, more research is needed on best practices of parental mediation for both traditional and new media. Ideally, this research will involve large-scale, longitudinal studies that manage children from infancy to adulthood. Second, we need to better understand the relationship between parent media use and child media use and specifically how media may interfere with or strengthen parent-child relationships. Finally, longitudinal research on how developmental processes and individual child characteristics influence the intersection between media and family life is needed. The majority of children's media use takes place within a wider family dynamic. An understanding of this dynamic is crucial to understanding child media use as a whole.
了解围绕媒体使用的家庭动态对于我们理解媒体影响、政策制定以及针对个人和家庭进行干预以促进儿童健康与发展至关重要。家庭、育儿与媒体工作组回顾了过去几十年的相关研究。我们发现儿童特征、亲子关系、父母的媒介调解行为以及父母自身对媒体的使用，都会影响儿童对媒体的使用、他们对媒体的态度以及媒体对儿童的影响。然而，仍存在差距。首先，对于传统媒体和新媒体的父母媒介调解最佳实践，需要开展更多研究。理想情况下，这项研究将涉及从婴儿期到成年期对儿童进行管理的大规模纵向研究。其次，我们需要更好地理解父母媒体使用与儿童媒体使用之间的关系，特别是媒体如何干扰或加强亲子关系。最后，需要开展纵向研究，探讨发展过程和儿童个体特征如何影响媒体与家庭生活的交叉点。大多数儿童的媒体使用发生在更广泛的家庭动态之中。理解这种动态对于整体理解儿童媒体使用至关重要。
