Choi Koeun, Hong Yea-Ji
Department of Human Development and Family Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States.
Department of Child Studies, Inha University, Incheon, Republic of Korea.
Infant Behav Dev. 2025 Mar;78:102009. doi: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2024.102009. Epub 2024 Dec 3.
The increasing prevalence of digital media devices in families with young children has raised concerns over problematic media use. However, the link between toddlers' problematic media use, their socioemotional development, and the influence of parental factors remains unclear. The current study examined the roles of problematic media use by both mothers and toddlers in the association between maternal parenting stress and toddlers' socioemotional development. Participants comprised 215 mothers and 73 lead child care classroom teachers of toddlers aged 24-36 months enrolled in child care centers in South Korea. Mothers reported parenting stress and problematic media use by themselves and their toddlers, and child care teachers reported toddlers' socioemotional development. The results from structural equation modeling analysis revealed that maternal parenting stress was related to toddlers' socioemotional development both directly and indirectly through toddlers' problematic media use, both alone and in conjunction with mothers' problematic media use. Although maternal parenting stress was related to mothers' problematic media use, mothers' problematic media use was not directly related to toddlers' socioemotional development. These findings underscore the importance of toddlers' problematic media use in their socioemotional development and highlight the need for comprehensive approaches that address family dynamics, such as maternal parenting stress and problematic media use.
在有幼儿的家庭中，数字媒体设备的日益普及引发了人们对有问题的媒体使用的担忧。然而，幼儿有问题的媒体使用、他们的社会情感发展以及父母因素的影响之间的联系仍不明确。当前的研究考察了母亲和幼儿有问题的媒体使用在母亲育儿压力与幼儿社会情感发展之间的关联中所起的作用。参与者包括215名母亲和73名在韩国托儿所就读的24至36个月大幼儿的首席幼儿教师。母亲们报告了自己和幼儿有问题的媒体使用情况以及育儿压力，幼儿教师报告了幼儿的社会情感发展情况。结构方程模型分析的结果显示，母亲的育儿压力与幼儿的社会情感发展直接相关，并且通过幼儿有问题的媒体使用（单独以及与母亲有问题的媒体使用共同作用）间接相关。尽管母亲的育儿压力与母亲有问题的媒体使用有关，但母亲有问题的媒体使用与幼儿的社会情感发展并无直接关联。这些发现强调了幼儿有问题的媒体使用在其社会情感发展中的重要性，并突出了采取综合方法应对家庭动态因素（如母亲的育儿压力和有问题的媒体使用）的必要性。
