Parenting Practices and Child Problematic Internet Use

[Dr. Jason Nagata] Finally, parents of adolescents in the ABCD study were also asked about their own media parenting practices, and we examined how these media parenting practices were associated with problematic use in the adolescent. And overall that we found that the greater parents’ screen use, and parents allowing or having meals-mealtime screen use or bedtime screen use was associated with greater problematic use across the different modalities. And parental monitoring was associated with lower problematic social media and mobile phone use. And parental restriction of screen use was associated with low or lower problematic use across the three modalities. Again, these are again with very young adolescents.