There is widespread public and academic interest in understanding the uses and effects of
digital media. Scholars primarily use self-report measures of the quantity or duration of …

Importance There is considerable public and scientific debate as to whether screen use
helps or hinders early child development, particularly the development of language skills …

Importance Pediatric guidelines suggest that infants younger than 2 years avoid screen time
altogether, while children aged 2 to 5 years receive no more than 1 hour per day. Although …

METHODS: We recruited 346 English-speaking parents and guardians of children aged 3 to
5 years to take part in a prospective cohort study of child media use. All interactions with …

Smartphone use is ubiquitous in the lives of parents, and an emerging area of research is
investigating how parental smartphone use during parent–child interactions affects …

There is ample evidence that young children's screen media use has sharply increased
since the outbreak of the novel 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19). However, the long …

Background One pressing question in the field of pediatrics is whether a dose–response
relation is observed between hours of screen time and child outcomes. This study examined …

The landscape of couple leisure time has shifted to include and, in some relationships, rely
upon technology use. Technology has the potential to intrude upon face-to-face interactions …

Interruptions to parent–child interactions due to technology, or “technoference,” have been
correlated with a host of negative child developmental outcomes. Yet, the influence of …

Importance Young children's screen time increased during the COVID-19 lockdown in 2020,
but it is unknown whether their screen time returned to prepandemic levels in 2021 …