Cao, S.; Li, H. A Scoping Review of Digital Well-Being in Early Childhood: Definitions, Measurements, Contributors, and Interventions. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health2023, 20, 3510.
Cao, S.; Li, H. A Scoping Review of Digital Well-Being in Early Childhood: Definitions, Measurements, Contributors, and Interventions. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2023, 20, 3510.
Cao, S.; Li, H. A Scoping Review of Digital Well-Being in Early Childhood: Definitions, Measurements, Contributors, and Interventions. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health2023, 20, 3510.
Cao, S.; Li, H. A Scoping Review of Digital Well-Being in Early Childhood: Definitions, Measurements, Contributors, and Interventions. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2023, 20, 3510.
Abstract
Digital wellbeing concerns the balance and health we may experience in digital use, and the existing studies have focused on adolescents and adults. However, young children are more vulnerable to digital overuse and addiction than adults; thus, their digital wellbeing deserves empirical exploration. This scoping review synthesized and evaluated 35 collected studies on young children’s digital use and their wellbeing that were published until October of 2022 to understand the definitions, measurements, contributors, and interventions. The synthesis of evidence revealed that: (1) there was no consensus about its definition; (2) there were no effective measurements of young children’s digital wellbeing; (3) both child factors (duration and place of digital use, child demographic characteristics) and parent factors (digital use, parental perception, and mediation) contribute to young children’s wellbeing; and (4) there were some effective applications and interventions. This review contributes to the theoretical development by mapping the existing work on young children's digital wellbeing, proposing a model, and identifying the research gaps for future studies.
Keywords
young children; early childhood; digital; wellbeing; review; definition; measurement; contributor; intervention.
Subject
Medicine and Pharmacology, Psychiatry and Mental Health
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