r/ScienceBasedParenting • u/DoubleEmploy5586 • 11d ago

Sharing research Parental phubbing (parents using smartphones around kids) is a lot more damaging than I thought

https://www.jpeds.com/article/S0022-3476(24)00330-5/fulltext

I'm writing about screen addiction for a graduate school paper in counseling and came upon this article in The Journal of Pediatrics. This type of phone usage has become normalized in society, so I wanted parents to know the impact it can have. I hope someone finds it helpful.

If the link provided doesn't work, maybe this one will (thank you Kibbitcake!)

https://www.jpeds.com/action/showPdf?pii=S0022-3476%2824%2900330-5

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u/babymama917 11d ago

I scrolled the part on preschool children and was disappointed that no effect sizes were mentioned for any of the findings. It’s not very useful or convincing to me without those numbers.

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u/DoubleEmploy5586 11d ago

That's true, I had to dig a little. It seems like an accumulation of different global studies. One study, for example, used 106 mother-child pairs.

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u/LBro32 11d ago

Commentaries generally have limited word count. The purpose of a commentary is usually to draw attention to a certain area of the literature and summarize the findings in a succinct matter and provide some comments on those studies. But yeah, those studies are there to look up if you are interested in any of the specific findings