英文摘要 |
With the development of new technologies, people use electronic gadgets more often all day long. Importantly, young children may be the frequent users. Yet, these was little research using nationally representative samples to investigate the screen time of young children in Taiwan, and less was known about the relationships among the screen time of children, the family environment and parent-child interaction time, which were both closely related to children's life. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to examine the associations among family environment, parent-child interaction time and the screen time of 3-year-old children. The data used in this study were from the Kids in Taiwan: National Longitudinal Study of Child Development & Care (KIT), which surveyed at 2016. The selected samples comprised 1876 parents with 3-year-old children. The Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) was employed to analyze data from these samples. The results indicated the following findings: First, on average, TV time of children was 94.51 minutes a day, and the other types of screen time of children such as computers, pads and cell phones were 41.45 minutes per day. Second, the family socioeconomic status had significant direct effects on both the family environment of children and the parent-child interaction time. The higher the family socioeconomic status was, the richer the family environment children received and the longer the parent-child interaction time was. Third, this study demonstrated that both the family environment of children and the parent-child interaction time had significant direct effects on the screen time of children. Children with richer family environment and longer parent-child interaction time had less screen time. Fourth, the relationship between the family socioeconomic status and the screen time of children was significantly mediated by children's family environment and the parent-child interaction time. |