Children and parents: media use and attitudes report

By Ofcom. 2015

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Development of Coping Strategies From Childhood to Adolescence: Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Trends (2018, background): “Children spend a lot of time using electronic media such as television, computers, and cell phones (MPFS, 2017; Ofcom, 2016).”
The association between adolescent well-being and digital technology use (2019, background): “As doubled the time spent by young people online has in the past decade 2 , the debate about whether this shift negatively impacts children and adolescents is becoming increasingly heated 3 .”
A Large-Scale Test of the Goldilocks Hypothesis (2017, background): “For example, the amount of time adolescents spend online has more than doubled from an average of 8 hr per week in 2005 to 18.9 hr per week today (Ofcom, 2015), and the time spent with these technologies, especially during childhood and adolescence, has sparked concerns that their use might be…”
Teenagers, screens and social media: a narrative review of reviews and key studies (2020, background): “The amount of screen time engaged in has risen in the past years, while the amount of time spent solely watching TV has fallen [40].”