Multidimensional predictors of adolescents’ nonacademic digital media use in the U.S. : Insights from a bioecological perspective

• Main Authors: YANG, Hwajin, YANG, Sujin, YANG, Yingjia, TANG, Qin Ying Joann
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2024
• Subjects: Adolescents; Media use; Screen time; Mobile devices; Smartphones; Computers; Bioecological model; Process-person-context-time model; National survey of children's health; Applied Behavior Analysis; Cognitive Psychology; Social and Behavioral Sciences
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/4126
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Using the revised bioecological model, we examined whether three broad factors predict adolescents’ nonacademic media use, with the exception of TV: (a) process factors that highlight a child’s fundamental and proximal interactional activities (e.g., eating meals together); (b) person factors (e.g.,...