10.25376/hra.8006960.v1
Sarah Domoff
Sarah
Domoff
Alison Miller
Alison
Miller
Neeaz Khalatbari
Neeaz
Khalatbari
Megan Pesch
Megan
Pesch
Kristen Harrison
Kristen
Harrison
Katherine L. Rosenblum
Katherine L.
Rosenblum
Julie Lumeng
Julie
Lumeng
Maternal beliefs about television and parental mediation in a low income United States sample_2017.pdf
Health Research Alliance
2019
Parental mediation
child
parent
low-income
screen-time
television
Medical and Health Sciences not elsewhere classified
2019-04-17 17:45:38
Dataset
https://hra.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Maternal_beliefs_about_television_and_parental_mediation_in_a_low_income_United_States_sample_2017_pdf/8006960
<div>ABSTRACT</div><div>Low-income children are at greater risk for excess screen time and</div><div>negative correlates associated with screen media use. The goal of this</div><div>study is to increase our understanding of low-income mothers’ beliefs</div><div>and practices around their children’s television (TV) use (parental</div><div>mediation). We administered semi-structured interviews to 296 lowincome</div><div>mothers of children ages four–eight years old in the United</div><div>States. Five themes emerged from the qualitative analysis: (1) mothers</div><div>are confident in restriction of TV content; (2) time limits are not as</div><div>important as TV content and are only necessary in extreme situations;</div><div>(3) mothers make meaning of child learning from TV content; (4)</div><div>mothers identified individual differences in child TV overuse; and (5)</div><div>mothers’ policy on TV during mealtime depends on how they believe</div><div>TV to affect child mealtime behaviors and mothers’ mealtime goals.</div><div>We discuss the implications of these themes for promoting parental</div><div>mediation in low-income families.</div>