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Dimitrova, Nevena, Bergmann, Christina, Alaslani, Khadeejah, Almohammadi, Alaa, Alroqi, Haifa, Aussems, Suzanne, Barokova, Mihaela, Davies, Catherine, Gonzalez-Gomez, Nayeli, Gibson, Shannon P., Havron, Naomi, Horowitz-Kraus, Tzipi, Kanero, Junko, Kartushina, Natalia, Keller, Christina, Mayor, Julien, Mundry, Roger, Shinskey, Jeanne and Mani, Nivedita (2022) Young children’s screen time during the first COVID‑19 lockdown in 12 countries. Scientific Reports, 12 . 2015. doi:10.1038/s41598-022-05840-5 ISSN 2045-2322.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-05840-5
Abstract
Older children with online schooling requirements, unsurprisingly, were reported to have increased screen time during the first COVID-19 lockdown in many countries. Here, we ask whether younger children with no similar online schooling requirements also had increased screen time during lockdown. We examined children’s screen time during the first COVID-19 lockdown in a large cohort (n = 2209) of 8-to-36-month-olds sampled from 15 labs across 12 countries. Caregivers reported that toddlers with no online schooling requirements were exposed to more screen time during lockdown than before lockdown. While this was exacerbated for countries with longer lockdowns, there was no evidence that the increase in screen time during lockdown was associated with socio-demographic variables, such as child age and socio-economic status (SES). However, screen time during lockdown was negatively associated with SES and positively associated with child age, caregiver screen time, and attitudes towards children’s screen time. The results highlight the impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on young children’s screen time.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology | ||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Psychology | ||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Computers and children -- Psychological aspects, Internet and children -- Psychological aspects, COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- -- Psychological aspects, Web-based instruction -- Psychological aspects, Children -- Language | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Scientific Reports | ||||||
| Publisher: | Nature Publishing Group | ||||||
| ISSN: | 2045-2322 | ||||||
| Official Date: | 7 February 2022 | ||||||
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| Volume: | 12 | ||||||
| Article Number: | 2015 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.1038/s41598-022-05840-5 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 10 February 2022 | ||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 14 February 2022 | ||||||
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