Shutzman Bar, Gershy Naama
Department of Education, The Hebrew University of the Jerusalem, Israel.
Comput Human Behav. 2023 Feb;139:107559. doi: 10.1016/j.chb.2022.107559. Epub 2022 Nov 11.
COVID-19's outbreak in March 2020 and the social distancing measures that followed it changed the lives of children worldwide. Studies assessing the pandemic's implications for children have reported an alarming increase in the use of digital media (DM) and warned of its adverse impacts on children's functioning and development. The current study aimed to assess the relationship between excessive and problematic DM use and emotional, behavioral, and academic functioning among Israeli adolescents during COVID-19 and to identify adolescents at elevated risk of developing problematic DM use. Three hundred forty-seven Israeli parent-child dyads ( = 11.81, = 1.41) separately completed measures assessing children's DM use (time and addiction), functioning (academic, social, emotional, and behavioral), behavioral dysregulation, and the parents' parenting practices. The results showed that DM addiction, but not DM use, was related to children's emotional, behavioral, and academic difficulties. Moreover, the results indicated that negative parenting and behavioral dysregulation increased the risk of DM addiction, which in turn increased emotional, behavioral, and academic difficulties. The results underscored parents' role in preventing problematic DM use and highlighted the need to treat DM use and problematic DM use as distinct constructs.
2020年3月新冠疫情的爆发以及随之而来的社交距离措施改变了全世界儿童的生活。评估疫情对儿童影响的研究报告称，数字媒体（DM）的使用出现了惊人的增长，并警告其对儿童的机能和发展有不利影响。本研究旨在评估新冠疫情期间以色列青少年过度和有问题的数字媒体使用与情绪、行为及学业机能之间的关系，并识别有发展成有问题数字媒体使用高风险的青少年。347对以色列亲子（平均年龄11.81岁，标准差1.41）分别完成了评估儿童数字媒体使用（时间和成瘾情况）、机能（学业、社交、情绪和行为方面）、行为失调以及父母养育方式的测评。结果显示，与数字媒体使用情况无关，数字媒体成瘾与儿童的情绪、行为和学业困难有关。此外，结果表明消极的养育方式和行为失调会增加数字媒体成瘾的风险，而这反过来又会增加情绪、行为和学业方面的困难。研究结果强调了父母在预防有问题的数字媒体使用方面的作用，并突出了将数字媒体使用和有问题的数字媒体使用视为不同概念的必要性。
