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The Effect of Screen Media on Children

The Change from Negative to Positive

Authors
Siqi Liang1, *
1Faculty of Psychology, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, China
*Corresponding author. Email: lsq424@email.swu.edu.cn
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Siqi Liang
Available Online 16 December 2022.
DOI
10.2991/978-2-494069-45-9_73How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Screen Media; Children Development; Co-viewing; Parental Involvement
Abstract

Given the inconsistent findings on the evaluation of screen media and its effect on children, the current paper aims to provide a relatively comprehensive understanding of the controversial topic. The effects of screen media are discussed and illustrated from the perspectives of children’s development stages and several sections, including cognitive, social, and emotional growth, as well as physical development. Based on the results from previous studies, a significant body of researchers has focused on the harm of screen media to children, including video deficit, lower social reactivity, obesity, and behaviour problems. But the potential benefits gradually draw public attention, especially under the circumstance of COVID-19. It is found that co-viewing with parents is one of the most applicable approaches to activating screen media’s positive effects. However, most of the previous research about the bad influence only analyses the correlations. And the study usually focuses on the children in developed countries, the data and resources of other developing countries become “invisible”. More causal effects and longitudinal studies from diverse samples are expected in a relatively new field.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2022 2nd International Conference on Modern Educational Technology and Social Sciences (ICMETSS 2022)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
16 December 2022
ISBN
10.2991/978-2-494069-45-9_73
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/978-2-494069-45-9_73How to use a DOI?
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© 2023 The Author(s)
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Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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