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), pp 237-258
01 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
- Creators
- Hillary Steinberg - Drexel University, A.J. Drexel Autism InstituteStefanie Mollborn (Corresponding Author) - Stockholm UniversityJennifer Pace - Midwestern State University
- Publication Details
- Journal of family issues, v 45(1), pp 237-258
- Publisher
- Sage
- Number of pages
- 22
- Grant note
- P2C HD066613 / Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development(NICHD); United States Department of Health & Human Services; National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA; NIH Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD) SES 1423524; SES 1729463 / National Science Foundation; National Science Foundation (NSF)
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- A.J. Drexel Autism Institute
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000912656600001
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85146635777
- Other Identifier
- 991021860722204721
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- Domestic collaboration
- International collaboration
- Web of Science research areas
- Family Studies