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>