A Parental Perspective of the Screen Devices Influence on Children: Chinese Families’ Anxiety Among Entertainment, Education and Social Needs

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.210519.174How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Screen devices, Parental anxiety, Entertainment influence

Abstract

This article describes the views of parents of Chinese families on their children’s use of touch-screen devices in an era of rapid media technology development. This research relates to the new-media influence issue and inter-generational relationship of the Chinese family. It contains multiple dimensional approaches to explore the relationship between parents and children who utilize screen devices at a relatively young age. Our main research methods are questionnaires and semi-structured interviews. The main content comes from a case in the interview, which talks about the experience of a boy named Joey from a high-income family as a video uploader. All cases are collected randomly from well-developed cities in southeast China and represent the new generation family mode. Moreover, the evidence in the passage includes practical cases that a kid is supported by his family to express his own opinions about fashion on the Tik Tok and theoretical knowledge. The result of the research can be applied to various situations in the future. One of the most crucial points we got is that the influence of screen devices on kids is diverse, and parents’ understanding of their children’s social or entertainment needs serves as a more and more essential part most of the time.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Junxi Lin
AU  - Lin Jiale
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/05/20
TI  - A Parental Perspective of the Screen Devices Influence on Children: Chinese Families’ Anxiety Among Entertainment, Education and Social Needs
BT  - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Humanities and Social Science Research (ICHSSR 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 875
EP  - 879
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210519.174
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210519.174
ID  - Lin2021
ER  -