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CHILD DEVELOPMENT
Volume 89, Issue 1, Pages 100-109Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/cdev.12822
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- College of Health and Human Development
- Department of Human Development and Family Studies
- Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center at The Pennsylvania State University
- National Institute on Drug Abuse [T32DA017629]
- National Institute of Child Health and Human Development [F31HD084118]
- EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH & HUMAN DEVELOPMENT [F31HD084118] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE [T32DA017629] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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Heavy parent digital technology use has been associated with suboptimal parent-child interactions, but no studies examine associations with child behavior. This study investigates whether parental problematic technology use is associated with technology-based interruptions in parent-child interactions, termed technoference, and whether technoference is associated with child behavior problems. Parent reports from 170 U.S. families (child M-age=3.04years) and actor-partner interdependence modeling showed that maternal and paternal problematic digital technology use predicted greater technoference in mother-child and father-child interactions; then, maternal technoference predicted both mothers' and fathers' reports of child externalizing and internalizing behaviors. Results suggest that technological interruptions are associated with child problem behaviors, but directionality and transactional processes should be examined in future longitudinal studies. The title for this special section is Contemporary Mobile Technology and Child and Adolescent Development, edited by Zheng Yan and Lennart Hardell
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