Gu Qiulan, Zhao Mei
CAS Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China.
Department of Psychology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 101408, China.
Behav Sci (Basel). 2025 Feb 13;15(2):203. doi: 10.3390/bs15020203.
This study aims to investigate the key factors contributing to parental phubbing behaviors (the combination of "phone" and "snubbing"), ultimately reducing behavioral problems and promoting healthy development among preschool children. Parental phubbing refers to the phenomenon where parents neglect their children due to excessive mobile device use during parent-child interactions. A questionnaire was administered to 751 parents of preschool children during 2023 using a convenience sampling methodology. Structural equation modeling was used to investigate the underlying mechanisms among parental phubbing behavior, parent-child conflict, children's screen exposure duration, and preschool children's problematic behaviors. The phenomenon of parental phubbing exhibits a medium-high level of prevalence, paralleled by medium-high levels of problematic behaviors in preschool children; Parental phubbing not only directly predicts problematic behaviors in preschool children, but also indirectly influences these behaviors through a mediating chain comprising parent-child conflict and children's screen exposure duration. However, parental phubbing behavior does not directly predict preschool children's screen exposure duration; rather, parental phubbing behavior influences children's screen time through parent-child conflict as a significant mediating factor. The phenomenon of parental phubbing behavior is concerning, suggesting that parents should pay attention to the potential hazards of media use on preschool children, improve their own media literacy, and provide appropriate media guidance to their children while accompanying them at home, so as to jointly promote the comprehensive development of preschool children.
本研究旨在探究导致父母低头族行为（“phone”和“snubbing”的结合）的关键因素，最终减少行为问题并促进学龄前儿童的健康发展。父母低头族行为是指在亲子互动过程中，父母因过度使用移动设备而忽视孩子的现象。2023年期间，采用便利抽样方法对751名学龄前儿童的家长进行了问卷调查。使用结构方程模型来探究父母低头族行为、亲子冲突、儿童屏幕暴露时长和学龄前儿童问题行为之间的潜在机制。父母低头族现象呈现出中高水平的发生率，与此同时学龄前儿童也存在中高水平的问题行为；父母低头族行为不仅直接预测学龄前儿童的问题行为，还通过由亲子冲突和儿童屏幕暴露时长组成的中介链间接影响这些行为。然而，父母低头族行为并不直接预测学龄前儿童的屏幕暴露时长；相反，父母低头族行为通过亲子冲突这一重要中介因素影响孩子的屏幕时间。父母低头族行为现象令人担忧，这表明家长应关注媒体使用对学龄前儿童的潜在危害，提高自身的媒体素养，并在陪伴孩子在家时为其提供适当的媒体指导，从而共同促进学龄前儿童的全面发展。
