Digital media and preschoolers behaviours

Children of nowadays grow up in media-rich homes, which being surrounded by digital technologies and internet services. And that may lead to negative or positive consequences on their growth and development later on.The aim of this study was to assess preschoolers' digital media use and parents' mediation strategies regarding digital media in both governmental and private kindergartens. In addition to find out the association between preschooler' health-related behaviors with certain demographic variables and parental mediation strategies. The majority of preschoolers were five years old and female gender in both kindergartens. Although about (95%) of participants have TV/DVD and (93%) have the touchscreens (smartphone/ tablet) devices in their homes in both kindergartens, however touchscreens used more than TV/DVD as the results showed. Concerning time-consumed on the digital media, results show more than (40%) of a preschoolers in both kindergartensuse digital media above the recommended time and this was significantly correlating with time-spending by the parents on digital media.

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Ali Fadhil Obaid, maître de conférences à l'Université de Babylone, Faculté des soins infirmiers, Département des soins infirmiers pédiatriques.