Child Development and Digital Technology
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The widespread adoption of digital and intelligent technologies has reshaped the ecological environment of family children caring, creating both new challenges and opportunities for the development of expressive language abilities in infants and toddlers. Based on questionnaire data collected from the primary caregivers of 533 children aged 16-36 months, this study systematically investigates the impact of the family rearing environment on infants' and toddlers' expressive language development and examines the mediating role of screen exposure in this relationship. Findings indicate that the level of expressive language development varies significantly according to the type of screen content, mode of presentation, and degree of adult involvement during screen exposure. The family rearing environment exerts a significant positive predictive effect on expressive language ability while simultaneously demonstrating a significant negative predictive effect on children's screen exposure behaviors. Screen exposure itself has a significant negative impact on the development of expressive language ability and serves as a partial mediator in the relationship between the family rearing environment and expressive language development. Based on these findings, family caregivers can foster healthy expressive language development in infants and toddlers by optimizing the family media ecology, selecting high-quality screen content, reasonably regulating screen exposure duration, and making informed choices regarding screen devices and presentation formats.
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@article{Han2026Family,
title = {Family nurturing environment and the development of infants' expressive language ability in the age of digital intelligence: Mediating effect based on screen exposure},
author = {Chunhua Han and Lei Gan and Wei Lin and Sihan Wang},
journal = {Advances in Social Behavior Research},
year = {2026},
doi = {10.54254/2753-7102/2026.34458},
url = {https://doi.org/10.54254/2753-7102/2026.34458}
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