[1] "Perhaps as a coping mechanism to address reduced resources and increased stressors, across multiple countries during lockdown periods, young children’s screen media use sharply increased during the pandemic (Bergmann et al., 2022; Carroll et al., 2020; Eales et al., 2021; Gueron-Sela et al., 2023; Hartshorne et al., 2021; Ozturk Eyimaya & Yalçin Irmak, 2021; Pedrotti et al., 2022; Pombo et al., 2021; Ribner et al., 2021; Wiederhold, 2020)."
[2] "The fact that digital media serve so many functions might explain why https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108885751 Published online by Cambridge University Press children’s digital media use is predicted by parenting stress (Madigan et al., 2020), maternal depression (Bank et al., 2012; Coyne et al., 2021; Pempek & McDaniel, 2016), poor maternal relational well-being (Tombeau Cost et al., 2020), and low child self-regulation (Coyne et al., 2021; McDaniel & Radesky, 2020; Nabi & Krcmar, 2016)."
[3] "Factors con- sidered as constituents of the family media ecology include individual parent characteristics, such as parent mental health, which is linked with children’s media exposure (e.g., Bank et al., 2012; Conners et al., 2007; Coyne et al., 2021; Goh et al., 2016; McDaniel & Radesky, 2020; Nikken & Schols, 2015; Pempek & McDaniel, 2016; Tombeau Cost et al., 2020)."
[4] "Parents who report that https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108885751 Published online by Cambridge University Press their children have more difficult temperaments also report that they are more likely to use media to regulate children’s emotions (Coyne et al., 2021; Gordon- Hacker & Gueron-Sela, 2020; McDaniel & Radesky, 2018), which may in turn disrupt children’s ability to self-regulate as well as the parents’ ability to support children as they learn to identify and manage their mood and physiological states."
[5] "Within the DREAMER https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108885751 Published online by Cambridge University Press framework, some uses of media may meet parents’ needs in supportive ways, but using media to regulate children’s emotions and behavior may be problem- atic for children’s self-regulation development (Coyne et al., 2021; McDaniel & Radesky, 2018)."
[6] "Although the DSMM recognizes the https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108885751 Published online by Cambridge University Press transactional nature of children’s media use and preferences, it does not expli- citly examine the relational processes that occur around media (e.g., parent– child interaction around tablets; Munzer et al., 2019), or are disrupted or supported by media (e.g., technoference; McDaniel & Coyne, 2016)."
[7] "For this reason, scientists and policymakers alike have called for more rigorous research on children and media (Markey, 2018; Radesky et al., 2016a; Radesky & Hiniker, 2022; Reid Chassiakos et al., 2016) to inform both federal regulations regarding child technology products and to provide guidance to parents of young children."
