Temporal associations between parents' daily reports of media motivations, infant affect, and parenting behavior.

ABSTRACT: Past research links media use to infant negative affect, and parents report using media to cope. However, trait-level measures mask within-person effects that reflect regulatory and relational mechanisms more directly. In this study, 401 predominantly White (70.32%), college-educated (88.28%) parents (75.31% mothers) of 12- to 24-month-olds (M_age = 16.43, 51.37% boys) completed daily diaries reporting the frequency of parent and child behaviors and affective states for 21 consecutive days. Temporal network modeling was used to examine associations among parents' daily reports of media motivations, infant affect, and parenting behavior. On days when infants were fussier than usual, parents reported more yelling and more media use to occupy children, regulate children, and

SUBMITTER: Kirkorian H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12915684 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature