Fighting over smartphones?

Autor(en)

Jörg Matthes, Marina Frederike Thomas, Anja Stevic, Desiree Schmuck

Abstrakt

Parental regulation of children's smartphone use is typically associated with conflict. To explain conflict, this paper focused on parents' own smartphone use. A panel survey among parent-child pairs (NTme2 = 384) revealed that parents' excessive smartphone use at Time 1 was associated with a lack of control over children's smartphone use at Time 2. Lack of control over children's smartphone use, in turn, was related to conflict about the smartphone from children's and parents' perspectives over time. The relations with conflict were independent of whether parents thought that smartphones have negative effects on children. Overall, findings stress that both, children's and parents' smartphone use, need to be considered when explaining technology-related family conflicts.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft

Externe Organisation(en)

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

Journal

Computers in Human Behavior

Band

116

Anzahl der Seiten

8

ISSN

0747-5632

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2020.106618

Publikationsdatum

11-2020

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

508007 Kommunikationswissenschaft, 508014 Publizistik

Schlagwörter

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Psychology(all), Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous), Human-computer interaction

Link zum Portal

https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/de/publications/fighting-over-smartphones(51899152-754a-4fe2-a6b9-30fd1117f9ec).html