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Published on: February 11, 2017
Parental Technoference (Technology Interference) and Children's Social-Emotional Development: Coparenting as a
Lingyan Shen1, Jiayin Zheng2, Lixin Ren1
1Academy of Future Education, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China; and.
Objective:
Although the impact of parental technoference on family dynamics has been increasingly studied, its association with preschoolers' social-emotional development and the underlying mechanism behind the association remain underexplored. This study aimed to examine the relationship between parental technoference and preschoolers' social-emotional development among Chinese families, with coparenting as a potential mediator.
Method:
This study involved 207 Chinese families with preschoolers (mean age = 4.72 years). Both mothers and fathers reported on their perceptions of technoference, coparenting quality, and their child's social-emotional development.
Results:
Parental technoference was negatively associated with both mother- and father-reported coparenting quality. However, only father-reported coparenting, but not mother-reported coparenting, was significantly related to children's social-emotional development. Analysis of the indirect effects showed that both father-reported supportive and undermining coparenting partially mediated the relationship between parental technoference and certain aspects of children's social-emotional development. By contrast, mother-reported coparenting did not significantly mediate the association between parental technoference and children's social-emotional development.
Conclusion:
Our findings highlight the importance of managing parental technoference and strengthening coparenting to promote social-emotional development in Chinese preschool children.
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