Tuning into the real effect of smartphone use on parenting: a multiverse analysis
Duration: 4 mins
Publication Date: 11 Nov 2020
Next Review Date: 11 Nov 2023
DOI: 10.13056/acamh.13900
Description
Dr. Kathryn Modecki discusses her JCPP paper ‘Tuning into the real effect of smartphone use on parenting: a multiverse analysis.' Concerns have been raised regarding the potential negative impacts of parents’ smartphone use on the parent–child relationship. A scoping literature review indicated inconsistent effects, arguably attributable to different conceptualizations of parent phone use and conflation of phone use with technological interference.
Learning Objectives
1. Explore the robustness (and direction) of effects of parents’ smartphone use on the parent–child relationship.
2. Assess the size and direction of association between parental device use and parent–child relationship outcomes across varying operationalizations of smartphone use.
3. Examine the modifying role of technoference (family displacement and family conflict), on the association between phone use and parenting.
