Holmgren Hailey G, Booth McCall A, Ashby Sarah, Coyne Sarah M, Clifford Brandon N, Davis Emilie
Brigham Young University.
Indiana University - Bloomington.
Comput Human Behav. 2024 Dec;161. doi: 10.1016/j.chb.2024.108410. Epub 2024 Aug 13.
Mothers play an important role in setting the overall media culture within the home. Research suggests that children model parental behavior in many ways, including in media use habits. The current study explores profiles or patterns of maternal media use and associations between these patterns and parenting behaviors surrounding media use and parent and child problematic media use two years later. In our sample of 268 mothers of young children in a large Mountain West city, latent profile analysis was utilized, and four distinct profiles of media users were identified. Results suggest that mothers in a low media use profile set limits around their child's media use and report low levels of both technoference and parent problematic media use. Conversely, mothers in a higher social use profile exhibit high levels of parent and child problematic media use compared to other profiles. We encourage mothers to be mindful users of media, remembering that their media use behaviors can impact the overall media use climate in the home.
母亲在塑造家庭整体媒体文化方面发挥着重要作用。研究表明，孩子会在许多方面模仿父母的行为，包括媒体使用习惯。本研究探讨了母亲媒体使用的概况或模式，以及这些模式与两年后围绕媒体使用的育儿行为、父母及孩子的问题性媒体使用之间的关联。在我们对美国西部山区一个大城市中268名幼儿母亲的样本中，采用了潜在概况分析，并识别出了四种不同的媒体用户概况。结果表明，媒体使用水平较低的母亲会对孩子的媒体使用设置限制，并且报告称技术干扰和父母问题性媒体使用的水平都较低。相反，与其他概况相比，社交使用水平较高的母亲表现出较高水平的父母及孩子问题性媒体使用。我们鼓励母亲们成为明智的媒体使用者，记住她们的媒体使用行为会影响家庭中的整体媒体使用氛围。
