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Research Publication: Cognitive and psychophysiological predictors of inductive and physical discipline among parents of preschool-aged children

  • by Daniel Ewon Choe

This article in the American Psychological Association's Journal of Family Psychology shows that parents with lower levels of impulse control and nonverbal intelligence are more likely to endorse the use of physical discipline, such as spanking, in response to their preschool-aged child's misbehavior. Parents low in physiological arousal when at rest report fewer child behavior problems the more they endorse the use of physical discipline.

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Research Publication: The role of different screen media devices, child dysregulation, and parent screen media use in children’s self-regulation

  • by Daniel Ewon Choe

This study shows that preschool-aged children’s screen time on mobile devices, such as tablets and smartphones, is more negatively related to their self-regulation than their TV use. Children’s earlier self-regulatory deficits and parental screen time were mostly unrelated to their media use, and their self-regulation was unrelated to parents’ screen time. As young children are increasingly exceeding screen time guidelines, these findings encourage parents and other caregivers to limit children’s screen media use in early childhood.

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