Menzies Health Institute Queensland, School of Applied Psychology, Griffith University.
Department of Sociology, University of California, Irvine.
Perspect Psychol Sci. 2022 Nov;17(6):1673-1691. doi: 10.1177/17456916211072458. Epub 2022 Jul 11.
Concerns about parenting adolescents are not new, but the rapid diffusion of digital technologies has heightened anxieties over digital parenting. Findings are decidedly mixed regarding the impact of digital technologies on adolescent well-being, and parents are left to navigate their concerns without an empirically based road map. A missing link for understanding the state of the science is a clear characterization of how digital parenting is measured, including an evaluation of which areas demand an outsized share of scientific attention and which have been overlooked. To address this gap, we undertook two interdisciplinary systematic reviews of the digital-parenting literature and characterized measurement across (a) quantitative surveys ( = 145 studies) and (b) qualitative focus groups, interviews, codesign studies, and user studies ( = 49). We describe previously popular areas of survey measurement that are of decreasing relevance to parenting of digital spaces (e.g., co-use, hovering). We likewise highlight areas that have been overlooked, including consideration of positive uses of digital technologies, acknowledgment of bidirectional influence, and attention to heterogeneity among families and to extraparental social ecologies of support and monitoring. We provide recommendations for the future of digital-parenting research and propose a more comprehensive approach to measuring how modern adolescents are parented.
关注青少年养育问题并不是什么新鲜事，但数字技术的迅速普及加剧了人们对数字育儿的担忧。数字技术对青少年福祉的影响结果截然不同，父母在没有基于经验的路线图的情况下，只能自己应对这些担忧。了解科学现状的一个缺失环节是，如何明确描述数字育儿的衡量标准，包括评估哪些领域需要科学关注，哪些领域被忽视了。为了解决这一差距，我们对数字育儿文献进行了两次跨学科的系统评价，并对（a）定量调查（= 145 项研究）和（b）定性焦点小组、访谈、共同设计研究和用户研究（= 49 项）中的测量进行了描述。我们描述了以前在调查测量中流行的领域，这些领域与数字空间的育儿相关性正在降低（例如，共同使用、监督）。我们同样强调了一些被忽视的领域，包括对数字技术的积极使用的考虑、承认双向影响，以及关注家庭之间的异质性以及支持和监测的额外父母社会生态。我们为数字育儿研究的未来提供了建议，并提出了一种更全面的方法来衡量现代青少年是如何被养育的。
