Publications by authors named "McCall A Booth"
Article Synopsis
- Mothers significantly influence the media culture at home, with children often mimicking their media habits.
- A study identified four distinct profiles of maternal media use among 268 mothers, revealing differing levels of media engagement and its impact on parenting behaviors.
- Findings indicate that mothers with low media use create healthier media environments for their children, while those with high social media use experience more issues related to problematic media use for both themselves and their children.
The development of problematic media use in early childhood is not well understood. The current study examined long-term associations between parental media efficacy, parental media monitoring, and problematic media use across a three-year period of time during early childhood. Participants included 432 parents who reported on their own parenting and their child's use of problematic media once a year for three years ( age of child at Wave 1 = 29.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEarly conversations are an important source in shaping children's cognitive and emotional development, and it is vital to understand how parents use media as a platform to engage in conversations with their young children and what might predict the quality of these interactions. Thus, in the current study we explored the nature of parent-child discourse while engaging in media (i.e.
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