LIFE Leipzig Research Center for Civilization Diseases, Leipzig University, Philipp-Rosenthal-Strasse 27, 04103, Leipzig, Germany.
Department of Women and Child Health, Hospital for Children and Adolescents and Center for Paediatric Research (CPL), Leipzig University, Liebigstrasse 20a, 04103, Leipzig, Germany.
BMC Public Health. 2023 Feb 21;23(1):371. doi: 10.1186/s12889-023-15221-w.
Since children can only control and limit their own media use to a limited extent, it is often the parents who regulate their children's media use. However, there is insufficient research on which strategies they use and on how these strategies are related to socio-demographic and behavioral parameters.
The parental media regulation strategies co-use, active mediation, restrictive mediation, monitoring, and technical mediation were assessed in a sample of 563 four- to 16-year-old children and adolescents from middle to high social strata participating in the German cohort study LIFE Child. We investigated cross-sectional associations with socio-demographic characteristics (age and sex of child, age of parent, and socio-economic status (SES)) and other behavioral parameters of children (media use, ownership of media devices, engagement in extracurricular activities) and their parents (media use).
All media regulation strategies were applied frequently, with restrictive mediation occurring most frequently. Overall, parents of younger children and of boys mediated media use more frequently, while we observed no differences depending on SES. Regarding child behavior, the ownership of a smartphone and a tablet/personal computer/laptop was associated with more frequent technical restriction, while screen time and engagement in extracurricular activities was not associated with parental media regulation. In contrast, parental screen time was related to more frequent co-use and less frequent use of restrictive and technical mediation.
Parental regulation of child media use is influenced by parental attitudes and a perceived need for mediation (e.g., in younger children or children owning internet-enabled devices) rather than child behavior.
由于儿童只能在有限的程度上控制和限制自己对媒体的使用，因此通常是父母来规范他们的孩子的媒体使用。然而，对于他们使用的策略以及这些策略与社会人口统计学和行为参数的关系，研究还不够充分。
在一项来自中高社会阶层的 563 名 4 至 16 岁儿童和青少年的德国队列研究 LIFE Child 中，评估了父母的媒体监管策略共同使用、主动调解、限制调解、监控和技术调解。我们调查了与社会人口统计学特征（儿童的年龄和性别、父母的年龄、社会经济地位（SES））和儿童的其他行为参数（媒体使用、媒体设备拥有情况、课外活动参与情况）及其父母的媒体使用情况的横断面关联。
所有的媒体监管策略都经常被使用，其中限制调解最为常见。总体而言，年幼孩子和男孩的父母更频繁地调解媒体使用，而 SES 没有差异。关于儿童行为，拥有智能手机和平板电脑/个人电脑/笔记本电脑与更频繁的技术限制有关，而屏幕时间和课外活动参与度与父母的媒体监管无关。相比之下，父母的屏幕时间与更频繁的共同使用以及较少使用限制和技术调解有关。
父母对儿童媒体使用的监管受到父母态度和调解需求的影响（例如，在年幼的孩子或拥有上网设备的孩子中），而不是儿童的行为。
