Parental Attitudes Toward Children’s Usage of Tablet PC in Early Childhood -A Case Study of Government Employee and School Staff

碩士 === 國立聯合大學 === 資訊與社會研究所 === 101 === Nowadays digital products have become the mainstream of the technology trend. Tablet PC plays an important role between parents and children. The purposes of this study are to understand:1. The first goal was to show the situation how young children involve in...

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Main Authors: Lee Wen Chiu, 邱莉雯
Other Authors: 陳君山
Format: Others
Language:zh-TW
Published: 2013
Online Access:http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/57103155019234034486
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Summary:碩士 === 國立聯合大學 === 資訊與社會研究所 === 101 === Nowadays digital products have become the mainstream of the technology trend. Tablet PC plays an important role between parents and children. The purposes of this study are to understand:1. The first goal was to show the situation how young children involve in a Tablet PC. 2. The second goal was to present the parent-child interaction of those children who used Tablet PCs often. 3. The third goal was to find out what are the right parental attitudes when they faced new Tablet PC technology. This study was qualitative research. The purposive sampling was used to select seven participants, and the scheme of semi-structured interview compiled by the author was as study tool. The participants were parents who have Tablet PCs and their young children used Tablet PCs often. The contents acquired from the in-depth interviews and the main data was analyed by Nvivo 8.0. Through the nurturing process may provide more real informations about child-parenting. The main finding were summarized as follows:(1) The result revealed that parents, brothers/sisters, and peers would affected "young children" using Tablet PCs, and among all these factors "parental attitude" was the most significant factor. (2) Parents' shopping habits and attitudes are latent risk for young children. (3) Divert attention of using Tablet PC was the core of parental attitudes. The procedure of child-parenting were accompany, discipline and teaching. And parenting style was“Authoritative-Reciprocal”.(4)In parenting, the young children's response behavior showed gender differences. (5)Parents see optimistically about children’s usage of Tablet PC and agree to let children touch technological products early. Finally, this study delineates some suggestions for academic researchers and parents.