Tunisian mothers’ perception of their young children’s interactive screen time at home

Is Mothers’ Time With Their Children Home Production or Leisure?

Is Mothers’ Time With Their Children Home Production or Leisure? As mothers have increased their paid work efforts, conflicts between employment and family responsibilities have grown. This evolution has led researchers to explore more fully the role that caregiving responsibilities play in mothers’ time choices. We study this issue using data from the 2003 American Time Use Survey. We estimate...

Is Mothers’ Time With Their Children Home Production Time or Leisure?

Exploring parents' screen-viewing behaviours and sedentary time in association with their attitudes toward their young child's screen-viewing

Sedentary time and screen-viewing (SV) are associated with chronic disease risk in adults. Parent and child sedentary time and SV are associated. Parents influence children's SV through parenting styles and role modelling. Understanding whether parents' attitudes toward child SV are associated with their own SV and sedentary time will aid development of family interventions to reduce sedentary ...

Field trials of the Baby Check score card: mothers scoring their babies at home.

The Baby Check score card has been developed to help parents and health professionals grade the severity of acute illness in babies. This paper reports the results of two field trials in which mothers used Baby Check at home, 104 mothers scoring their babies daily for a week and 56 using it for six months. They all found Baby Check easy to use, between 68% and 81% found it useful, and 96% would...

Perception of personal identity at home.

This study aims to discover whether observers with the same cultural background as the inhabitant of a bedroom perceive common characteristics among the inhabitants. The study was carried out with 107 females who were asked to assess the inhabitants of eight bedrooms. Several slides of each bedroom were shown to participants and they had to choose from a list of seventy-six characteristics thos...