{"id":8588,"date":"2020-07-30T11:16:09","date_gmt":"2020-07-30T18:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8588"},"modified":"2021-04-05T11:16:56","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T18:16:56","slug":"how-parents-and-their-children-used-social-media-and-technology-at-the-beginning-of-the-covid-19-pandemic-and-associations-with-anxiety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/30\/how-parents-and-their-children-used-social-media-and-technology-at-the-beginning-of-the-covid-19-pandemic-and-associations-with-anxiety\/","title":{"rendered":"How Parents and Their Children Used Social Media and Technology at the Beginning of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Associations with Anxiety"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2019\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">An online survey of US parents\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">(n<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">=260)\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">found that\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">parents\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">and<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0children (especially teenagers aged 13-18) had increased technology and social media use since the beginning of social distancing<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0due to the COVID-19 pandemic<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">C<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ontrolling for\u00a0demographic factors, parents and children with higher levels of anxiety (as reported by parents) were more likely to increase their technology\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">and social media\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">use and\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">use\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">of\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">phones to connect. Among parents, higher anxiety was r<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">elated to using social media for both social support and information seeking.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Drouin et al. (July\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">27,\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">2020). How Parents and Their Children Used Social Media and Technology at the Beginning of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Associations with Anxiety. Cyberpsychology, Behavior and Social Networking.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1089\/cyber.2020.0284\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1089\/cyber.2020.0284<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;335559685&quot;:720}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An online survey of US parents\u00a0(n=260)\u00a0found that\u00a0parents\u00a0and\u00a0children (especially teenagers aged 13-18) had increased technology and social media use since the beginning of social distancing\u00a0due to the COVID-19 pandemic.\u00a0Controlling for\u00a0demographic factors, parents and children with higher levels of anxiety (as reported by parents) were more likely to increase their technology\u00a0and social media\u00a0use and\u00a0use\u00a0of\u00a0phones to connect. Among&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/30\/how-parents-and-their-children-used-social-media-and-technology-at-the-beginning-of-the-covid-19-pandemic-and-associations-with-anxiety\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[18],"class_list":["post-8588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-mental-health-and-personal-impact"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8589,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8588\/revisions\/8589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8588"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}