Parents’ Portable Screen Media Use: Its Impacts on Early Years Children and Parental Modification Strategies for Healthy Use and Future Benefits.

The rapid increase in screen media use for parents have been hypothesised to promote higher screen use in their early years children. Supervised by A/Prof Alina Morawska, Dr Amy Mitchell, and A/Prof Peter Newcombe, this study investigates a few potential mediators in promoting or impeding screen use in preschoolers, which also influence the parent-child interaction. It is aimed to bring beneficial empirical and practical implications to parents as primary role models of youngsters to engage in healthier screen media use.