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Managing Screen Use in the Under-Fives: Recommendations for Parenting Intervention Development

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Morawska, Alina, Mitchell, Amy E., Tooth, Leigh R.·2023·Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review
DOI 10.1007/s10567-023-00435-6PMC PMC10640456
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The impact of excessive screen use on children’s health and development is a public health concern and many countries have published recommendations to limit and guide the use of screen media in childhood. Despite this, international studies report that the majority of parents and children do not adhere to screen use recommendations. Existing research aiming to understand children’ screen use has largely focused on older children, and on demographic and structural aspects of the child’s environment. Parents play a central role in determining young children’s screen use and identify numerous barriers to developing healthy screen use practices with their children. However, no clear models exist that incorporate key parenting factors in understanding children’s screen use, which presents an impediment to intervention development. Likewise, while some evidence exists for interventions to improve children’s screen use behaviours, most are focused on older children and parental involvement has generally been limited. In this paper, we overview key factors associated with screen use in young children (< 5 years) and summarise the existing evidence base for interventions designed to support healthy screen use. This paper proposes a conceptual model linking aspects of parenting and the socio-ecological environment to young children’s screen use. Our proposed model could be used to design longitudinal studies of screen use predictors and outcomes, and inform intervention development. Finally, the paper provides key recommendations for future research, intervention development and testing.

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Authors
Morawska, A., Mitchell, A. E., & Tooth, L. R.
Affiliations
  • The University of Queensland (AU)
  • Griffith University (AU)
Corresponding author
Morawska, Alina
ORCID
Venue
Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published
2023-05-12
Volume
26
Issue
4
Pages
943-956
ISSN
  • 1096-4037 (ISSN-L)
  • 1573-2827
DOI
10.1007/s10567-023-00435-6
PMC
PMC10640456
OpenAlex
W4376226746
Cited by
51
References
15
Citations by year
2026: 19 · 2025: 17 · 2024: 11 · 2023: 4
FWCI
37.73
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
Locations
  • Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Griffith Research Online (submittedVersion, cc-by)
Funders
The University of Queensland
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Education › Child Development and Digital Technology
  • Social Sciences › Education › Educational Methods and Impacts
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Physical Activity and Health
Keywords
screen use, young children, parenting, screen media, parenting support, socio-ecological model, child development, conceptual model
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Child, Child Behavior, Child, Preschool, Humans, Longitudinal Studies, Parents, Parenting, Sedentary Behavior

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