National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Acta Psychol (Amst). 2022 Sep;229:103668. doi: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2022.103668. Epub 2022 Jul 14.
The quantity and quality of children's digital screen media exposure is an emerging area of early childhood studies because of its strong social relevance, and this has been particularly true since the COVID-19 pandemic. The few existing parental questionnaires on children's digital screen media exposure mainly focus on monolingual children's media habits and address either the quantity or quality of children's media exposure. Inspired by the existing instruments, the current study introduces a new parental questionnaire to comprehensively assess the duration, frequency, content, design, and use of bilingual children's digital screen media exposure at home, before and since the COVID-19 pandemic. Focus group discussions and the first wave of our data collection on 141 3-6 years old Singaporean bilingual children indicate good face validity and internal consistency of the parental questionnaire. Our results reveal substantial differences in children's quantity and quality of daily digital screen media exposure, as well as the discrepancies in their digital media habits between English and their mother tongue languages, before and since the COVID-19 pandemic.
儿童数字屏幕媒体暴露的数量和质量是儿童早期研究中的一个新兴领域，因为它具有很强的社会相关性，尤其是在 COVID-19 大流行之后。少数现有的关于儿童数字屏幕媒体暴露的父母调查问卷主要关注于单语儿童的媒体习惯，并且只涉及儿童媒体暴露的数量或质量。受现有工具的启发，本研究引入了一个新的父母调查问卷，以全面评估双语儿童在家中数字屏幕媒体暴露的持续时间、频率、内容、设计和使用情况，包括 COVID-19 大流行之前和之后的情况。焦点小组讨论和我们对 141 名 3-6 岁新加坡双语儿童的第一波数据收集表明，父母调查问卷具有良好的表面有效性和内部一致性。我们的结果表明，儿童的日常数字屏幕媒体暴露的数量和质量存在显著差异，以及他们在 COVID-19 大流行之前和之后在英语和母语之间的数字媒体习惯存在差异。
