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Direct linkSophia Burroughs; Cameron Minneman; Sarah Neeper; Gabrielle O'Shaughnessy; Madeline Schnabel; Laura Schmelzer; Alexia E. Metz – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2025
Play is an integral part of childhood which is done for the sake of enjoyment but also confers many benefits. For young children who attend childcare, preschool, and elementary school, play is frequently done outside the home and with peers. The public health measures of the COVID-19 pandemic confined many families to their homes while parents had…
Descriptors: Play, Young Children, Parent Attitudes, Parents
Hammond, Simon Patrick; Polizzi, Gianfranco; Bartholomew, Kimberley Jane – Education and Information Technologies, 2023
Educationalists', researchers', and policy makers' work on children's digital resilience has marginalised the role of the broader context within which digital resilience is constituted, experienced and derived. We aimed to address this lacuna by exploring how pre-teen's digital resilience operates as a dynamic socio-ecological process. Addressing…
Descriptors: Children, Parents, Teachers, Child Caregivers
Griffith, Shayl F.; Casanova, Samantha M.; Delisle, Jillian H.; Mavrakis, Athena A. – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2023
During the COVID-19 pandemic, families with young children were suddenly tasked with adapting to remote schooling, where lessons were largely delivered online via screen media devices. Meanwhile, concerns rose about increased amount of time young children were spending with screen media devices during periods of "lockdown". Few studies…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Electronic Learning, COVID-19, Pandemics
Valarian Couch – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Internet-enabled tools, cloud-based platforms, and digital communication devices have revolutionized the educational landscape but this digital transformation has increased students' exposure to cyber risks and threats exponentially. The purpose of this quantitative correlational study was to investigate the relationship between technology…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, Secondary School Students, Parents
Yuke Fu; Nathaniel J. Johnson; Mowei Liu; Tiana B. Vandendort; Rebecca K. Robertson; Hayley T. Hartwick – Early Child Development and Care, 2024
With children's digital technology usage surging in post-pandemic Canada, it is imperative to understand children's digital literacy and multimodal practices. This study investigated potential predictors of children's digital literacy and multimodal practices at home, and the latent profiles of digital families. A sample of 413 parents of children…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Digital Literacy, Parents, Access to Computers
Alia El Naggar – International Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 2024
This study examines the parental use of social media within autism spectrum disorder (ASD) families in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), focusing on perspectives and challenges in promoting social inclusion. Through semi-structured interviews with 21 participants, including 16 females and 5 males aged between 36 and 47, insights were gained into…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Media, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Computer Use
Justin A. Haegele; Fenghua Sun; Chunxiao Li; Kwok Ng; Jihyun Lee; Stefanie Hwee Chee Ang; Maria Luiza Tanure Alves; Hannah Yang; Yandan Wu; Jernice Sing Yee Tan; Pauli Rintala; Wendy Yajun Huang; Sean Healy; Isabella dos Santos Alves; Andre Lisandro Schliemann; Hyokju Maeng; Eija Karna; Ding Ding – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2024
This cross-sectional observational study sought to examine the environmental correlates of physical activity and screen-time among youth with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Parents of youth with ASD (n = 1,165) from seven countries/regions provided responses to an online survey form measuring environmental correlates (i.e., physical activity…
Descriptors: Youth, Parents, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Physical Activity Level
Caihong Zhang; Liting Xia; Aruna Wu – Early Child Development and Care, 2024
Electronic product use among preschool children is gradually widespread. To explore whether and how electronic product use causes problem behaviours in preschool children, this study analyses the relationships between the degree of electronic product use, problem behaviours, and the roles of parenting styles and parent-child relationships in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Kindergarten, Parent Child Relationship
Aidan Fielding; Emma Harding – Educational Psychology in Practice, 2024
Children have a right to play, as outlined by the United Nations, due to its important role in holistic development. However, as with many other human rights, children's access to their right to play was disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic and associated restrictions. With several studies demonstrating the ways in which children's play changed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Caregivers, Caregiver Attitudes, Parent Attitudes
Sinem Aslan; Lenitra M. Durham; Nese Alyuz; Rebecca Chierichetti; Pete A. Denman; Eda Okur; David I. Gonzalez Aguirre; Julio C. Zamora Esquivel; Hector A. Cordourier Maruri; Sangita Sharma; Giuseppe Raffa; Richard E. Mayer; Lama Nachman – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2024
Previous research showed that the parents acknowledged the technology's benefits for their young children's learning, however, they are still worried about the extended screen time, lack of physical activity and lack of social interactions. To address these concerns, we developed Kid Space to enable pedagogically appropriate technology use for…
Descriptors: Parents, Young Children, Artificial Intelligence, Interpersonal Communication
Baukiene, Edita; Jusiene, Roma; Praninskiene, Ruta; Lisauskiene, Lina – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
The aim of this study is to examine the relationship between toddlers' and pre-schoolers' sleep problems, screen-based media use, sleep regimen and the role of child emotional reactivity in this relationship. This research is a part of an extensive national study. Participants are 754 children aged 2-5 years old, and their parents. Sleep problems…
Descriptors: Young Children, Parents, Sleep, Television Viewing
Akyol, Tugçe – Educational Research Quarterly, 2023
This study aimed to examine the views of parents of young children on their children's use of technology during COVID-19. The participants of this research, in which a case study was used, consisted of 10 mothers and 10 fathers living in a province in the inner Aegean region of Turkey. The interview form prepared by the researcher was used as a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parents, COVID-19, Pandemics
Kelly, Mandy Jo – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Background: This paper poses to discuss and examine the concern of unmonitored and excessive internet use by school-age children, ages eight years to 11 years old, along with the importance of employing a Family Media Use Plan, which is recommended by the American Family of Pediatrics (AAP). This issue, although not often studied, is a common…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Internet, Computer Use, Incidence
Konca, Ahmet Sami – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2022
This study aimed to explore the digital environments of 3-6-year-old children within the home setting. A total of 537 children aged 3-6 years and their parents participated in the study. The results of the study revealed that the children live in digitally rich home environments. Parents usually limited the screen time of the children, or…
Descriptors: Young Children, Parents, Family Environment, Handheld Devices
Alwaely, Suad Abdalkareem; Minnullina, Rosalia; Fedorova, Elena; Lazareva, Yuliya – Cogent Education, 2023
Not only children but also adults now spend much more time in front of the screen (computers, laptops, tablets, phones, TVs, Play Station, other game consoles, etc.) for various reasons: work, study, a lot of free time, communication, entertainment, information retrieval. The aim of this paper is to examine how the time spent in front of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Parents, Addictive Behavior
