Is Exposure to Media Intended for Preschool Children Associated With Less Parent-Child Shared Reading Aloud and Teaching Activities?

Ambulatory Pediatrics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 18-24

  Tomopoulos, Suzy ^a   Valdez, Purnima T ^a   Dreyer, Benard P ^a   Fierman, Arthur H ^a   Berkule, Samantha B ^a   Kuhn, Maggie ^a   Mendelsohn, Alan L ^a  

^a BELLEVUE HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

media exposure; parenting; preschool children; reading; teaching activities

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD PARENT RELATION; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVENIENCE SAMPLE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MASS MEDIUM; PRESCHOOL CHILD; READING; RECREATION; SCORING SYSTEM; TEACHING; TELEVISION VIEWING; VIDEOTAPE;

ADULT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PARENTING; READING; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TEACHING; TELEVISION; TIME FACTORS; VIDEO GAMES;

EID: 33846437473     PISSN: 15301567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ambp.2006.10.005     Document Type: Article

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