The omnipresence of smartphones has not stopped at the door to the nursery. It is especially
important to better understand the impact of parental smartphone use on relationships at the …

Information and communication technology (ICT) facilitates communication within families
but may also displace face-to-face communication and intimacy. The aims of this systematic …

Recent years have seen a widespread integration of technology into the daily lives of
families. Psychological science has recently started to focus on the use of smartphones by …

Smartphones can affect the relationship between parents and their children, and this
technoference of technology has been associated with children's socio-emotional …

Importance Growing up in a language-rich home environment is important for children's
language development in the early years. The concept of “technoference”(technology-based …

Purpose The term 'technoference'refers to habitual interferences and disruptions within
interpersonal relationships or time spent together due to use of electronic devices. Emerging …

Parental technological immersion during parenting activities has been shown to alter parent–
child interactions. This concept, referred to as parental technoference, has the potential to …

In the interconnected family context, caregivers' digital media use holds important
implications for children's developmental outcomes via parent-child relationships. This may …

Emotional intelligence (EI) is comprised of a set of critical life skills that develop, in part,
through practice in social interaction. As such, some have expressed concern that the heavy …

Background With increases in the use of technological devices worldwide, parental
technoference is a potential threat to the quality of parent-child relationships and children's …