The Influence of Screen Media Usage on Child Social Development: A Systematic Review

Abstract

The relative contribution of screen time and media content to young children's social development has been unclear recently, and information on effective interventions to reduce children's screen time is limited. This review investigates the current status of electronic media use among young children and the effect of screen media usage on children's social development and attempts to explore the correlation between the two in order to enrich and improve related research. It is also supposed to give ideas for how families can use electronic media better to help children develop socially and reduce behavior problems. Parenting styles, media content, household income, the number of children in the family, how the parents use media, their habits, and cognitive stimuli in the home were also linked to young children's media use. The correlations identified in this study suggest intervention pathways to decrease children's screen time consumption and optimize media content. But more research needs to be done to look at some of the environmental, sociocultural, and behavioral factors that haven't been looked at much in young children. This could help make prevention and intervention plans better.