Journal article
Mature Enough to Handle it?: Gendered Parental Interventions in and Adolescents' Reactions to Technology Use During the Pandemic
JOURNAL OF FAMILY ISSUES, v 45(1)
Jan 2024
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Abstract
This study investigated how teenagers reacted to parental regulation of technology. Using longitudinal dyadic interviews with 24 teenagers and their 21 parents in two predominantly white middle-class communities, we explored how teenagers used technology during the COVID-19 pandemic and the differential consequences parental interventions had for teens' well-being and confidence with technology. Parents' narratives and actions about technology use were deeply gendered. Boys felt confident about their self-regulation of technology, and parents did not substantially limit boys' technology use during the pandemic. Girls were less confident about their ability to self-regulate and either worked with their mothers to manage technology, distrusted parents who monitored them, or lacked access to virtual hangout spaces such as video games and social media. The findings illustrate how parent-teen dynamics around adolescent technology use can produce short-term gendered inequalities in teenagers' well-being and result in long-term disadvantages for girls.
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- Title
- Mature Enough to Handle it?: Gendered Parental Interventions in and Adolescents' Reactions to Technology Use During the Pandemic
- Publication Details
- JOURNAL OF FAMILY ISSUES, v 45(1)
- Publisher
- SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC; THOUSAND OAKS
- Grant note
- The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This study was supported by National Science Foundation grants SES 1423524 and SES 1729463. We also thank the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development(NICHD)-funded University of Colorado Population Center (P2C HD066613) and the Lund University Centre for Economic Demography for development, administrative, and/or computing support
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Drexel University
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000912656600001
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85146635777
- Other Identifier
- 991021860722204721
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- Web of Science research areas
- Family Studies