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The development of a parental questionnaire (QQ-MediaSEED) on bilingual children's quantity and quality of digital media use at home
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Article
Citation
Sun, H., Lim, V., Low, J., & Kee, S. (2022). The development of a parental questionnaire (QQ-MediaSEED) on bilingual children's quantity and quality of digital media use at home. Acta Psychologica, 229, Article 103668. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2022.103668
Abstract
The quantity and quality of children's digital screen media exposure is an emerging area of early childhood studies because of its strong social relevance, and this has been particularly true since the COVID-19 pandemic. The few existing parental questionnaires on children's digital screen media exposure mainly focus on monolingual children's media habits and address either the quantity or quality of children's media exposure. Inspired by the existing instruments, the current study introduces a new parental questionnaire to comprehensively assess the duration, frequency, content, design, and use of bilingual children's digital screen media exposure at home, before and since the COVID-19 pandemic. Focus group discussions and the first wave of our data collection on 141 3–6 years old Singaporean bilingual children indicate good face validity and internal consistency of the parental questionnaire. Our results reveal substantial differences in children’s quantity and quality of daily digital screen media exposure, as well as the discrepancies in their digital media habits between English and their mother tongue languages, before and since the COVID-19 pandemic.
Publisher
Elsevier
Journal
Acta Psychologica
DOI
10.1016/j.actpsy.2022.103668
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The open access publication is available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2022.103668