Commentary: Influence of smartphone addiction proneness of young children on problematic behaviors and emotional intelligence: Mediating self-assessment effects of parents using smartphones

• Main Authors: TAN, Qin Ying Joanne, HARTANTO, Andree, TOH, Wei Xing, YANG, Hwajin
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2019
• Subjects: smartphone overuse; preschoolers; parental assessment of smartphone use; children’s problematicbehaviors; emotional intelligence; Applied Behavior Analysis; Child Psychology; Communication Technology and New Media; Social Psychology
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2852; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/4109/viewcontent/fpsyg_10_00115.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

The majority of studies on smartphone addiction have focused on adults and school-aged children or youth (e.g., Hartanto and Yang, 2016; Chung et al., 2018; Lee et al., 2018); few have investigated the impact of smartphone overuse during infancy and early childhood. Recently, Cho and Lee (2017) surv...