Abstract:
Concerns about parenting adolescents are not new, but the rapid diffusion of digital technologies has heightened anxieties over digital parenting. Findings are decidedly mixed regarding the impact of digital technologies on adolescent well-being, and parents are left to navigate their concerns without an empirically based road map. A missing link for understanding the state of the science is a clear characterization of how digital parenting is measured, including an evaluation of which areas demand an outsized share of scientific attention and which have been overlooked. To address this gap, we undertook two interdisciplinary systematic reviews of the digital-parenting literature and characterized measurement across (a) quantitative surveys (n = 145 studies) and (b) qualitative focus groups, interviews, codesign studies, and user studies (n = 49). We describe previously popular areas of survey measurement that are of decreasing relevance to parenting of digital spaces (e.g., co-use, hovering). We likewise highlight areas that have been overlooked, including consideration of positive uses of digital technologies, acknowledgment of bidirectional influence, and attention to heterogeneity among families and to extraparental social ecologies of support and monitoring. We provide recommendations for the future of digital-parenting research and propose a more comprehensive approach to measuring how modern adolescents are parented.
摘要:
对青少年育儿的担忧并不新鲜,但是数字技术的迅速扩散加剧了人们对数字育儿的焦虑。关于数字技术对青少年福祉的影响的结果肯定是混合的,而父母在没有基于经验的路线图的情况下,就可以解决他们的担忧。理解科学状况的一个缺失环节是如何衡量数字育儿的清晰特征,包括评估哪些领域需要过多的科学关注,哪些领域被忽视了。为了解决这个差距,我们对数字育儿文献进行了两次跨学科系统综述,并对(a)定量调查(n=145项研究)和(b)定性焦点小组进行了特征性测量,采访,codesign研究,和用户研究(n=49)。我们描述了以前流行的调查测量领域,这些领域与数字空间的育儿相关性正在下降(例如,共同使用,悬停)。我们同样强调被忽视的领域,包括考虑数字技术的积极使用,承认双向影响,并注意家庭之间的异质性以及支持和监测的外部社会生态。我们为数字育儿研究的未来提供建议,并提出了一种更全面的方法来衡量现代青少年的育儿方式。