Reich Stephanie M, Liu Yujia, Tulagan Nestor, Martin Esmeralda, Dahlin Melissa, Cabrera Natasha
University of California, Irvine.
University of Maryland, College Park.
J Child Media. 2023;17(2):246-265. doi: 10.1080/17482798.2023.2187853. Epub 2023 Mar 13.
The COVID-19 pandemic has greatly altered family life, and research among adults and families is finding increases in financial stress, mental health problems, screen time, parental conflict, and child behavior problems. Given these patterns, we sought to replicate these findings with a younger and largely non-white sample and consider how these constructs might relate to each other by using the Family Stress Model. From surveys of 247 predominately Latine mothers and fathers of children under 4 years in the U.S., we found that financial strain was related to children's media exposure and use, largely through impacts on parents' mental health and coparenting relationship. Interestingly, only use of television in the background and during mealtimes were associated with increases in children's behavior problems. Such findings better capture how stress may operate in a family system and offer a way to counsel parents about healthier media habits for children.
新冠疫情极大地改变了家庭生活，针对成年人及家庭的研究发现，经济压力、心理健康问题、屏幕使用时间、父母冲突以及儿童行为问题都有所增加。鉴于这些模式，我们试图在一个更年轻且以非白人为主的样本中重现这些发现，并通过家庭压力模型来考量这些因素之间可能存在的关联。通过对美国247名主要为拉丁裔的4岁以下儿童的父母进行调查，我们发现经济压力与儿童的媒体接触和使用有关，这在很大程度上是通过对父母心理健康和共同养育关系的影响实现的。有趣的是，只有在背景中以及用餐时看电视与儿童行为问题的增加有关。这些发现更好地揭示了压力在家庭系统中可能发挥作用的方式，并为向父母提供有关儿童更健康媒体习惯的建议提供了一种途径。
