Parent personality, child temperament, and digital media: Pathways to language development in early childhood.

ABSTRACT: Over the past decade, children's digital media exposure has increased rapidly, raising concerns about its potential negative impact on language development. While broader family ecology (especially parents) and the context of how media is used are known to matter in shaping children's language development, the roles of parent personality and child temperament in shaping media consumption remain understudied. To address this gap, this study introduces a holistic model examining parent personality, child temperament, and media use as predictors of language development in 2-year-old children, both concurrently and longitudinally. In Study 1, 464 caregivers (n_female = 222) of 17- to 30-month-old monolingual English-speaking children (n_female = 323) were recr

SUBMITTER: Wijaya S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12494160 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature