Getting a High-Speed Family Connection: Associations between Family Media Use and Family Connection

Autor/inn/en	Padilla-Walker, Laura M.; Coyne, Sarah M.; Fraser, Ashley M.
Titel	Getting a High-Speed Family Connection: Associations between Family Media Use and Family Connection
Quelle	In: Family Relations, 61 (2012) 3, S.426-440 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0197-6664
DOI	10.1111/j.1741-3729.2012.00710.x
Schlagwörter	Video Games; Family (Sociological Unit); Systems Approach; Correlation; Family Relationship; Adolescents; Parent Child Relationship; Television Viewing; Films; Social Networks; Adolescent Attitudes; Telecommunications; Information Technology + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Video game; Videospiel; Videospiele; Familie; Systemischer Ansatz; Korrelation; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Fernsehkonsum; Film; Social network; Soziales Netzwerk; Telekommunikationstechnik; Informationstechnologie
Abstract	The way families have used the media has substantially changed over the past decade. Within the framework of family systems theory, this paper examines the relations between family media use and family connection in a sample of 453 adolescents (mean age of child = 14.32 years, SD = 0.98, 52% female) and their parents. Results revealed that cell phone use and watching television or movies were the most common mediums used in families. Analyses also revealed that greater amounts of family cell phone use, coviewing of TV and movies, and coplaying of video games were associated with higher levels of family connection. Conversely, engagement over social networking sites was related to lower levels of family connection, at least from the adolescent's perspective. Implications for practitioners are discussed. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10