Sydney, July 11 -- Contrary to popular views, parental smartphone use is rarely associated with poor parenting, and more often than not, tends to be associated with warm and attached parenting, a Griffith University-led study has found.
Published in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, researchers from the School of Applied Psychology analysed 3,659, parent-based surveys*, and tested 12 different measures of smart phone use, to assess associations between smartphone use and parenting and found little evidence of a direct link.
They then explored if the effect of phone use on parenting depended on whether or not it displaced time with family and was associated with family conflict.
At low levels of displacing time with family, ...