This study explored the social repercussions of preadolescents’ mobile device use within the family context by testing two opposing predictions regarding the impact of technology on the quality of interpersonal relationships. Specifically, we examined whether smartphone and tablet use was positively related to preadolescents’ self-disclosure to their parents and/or displaced family time, which we hypothesized to be related to children’s satisfaction with family life. Results of a cross-sectional survey (n = 698, 49.6% girls, Mage= 10.9, SD = 0.69) provided support for both hypotheses, thus corroborating the presence of at least two diverging pathways that underlie this relationship. Although mobile device use seemed to foster a context that supported children’s self-disclosure to their parents, results also indicated a negative and indirect association through children’s perceived family time. This negative pathway, however, did not hold when social use among children and parents (e.g., playing games together online) was considered separately.

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数字分心或受刺激的自我披露：家庭环境中的Preadolescents移动设备使用

这项研究通过测试关于技术对人际关系质量的影响的两个相反的预测，探索了在家庭背景下青春期前的移动设备使用的社会影响。具体来说，我们研究了智能手机和平板电脑的使用是否与青春期前向父母的自我披露和/或流离失所的家庭时间呈正相关，我们假设这与孩子对家庭生活的满意度有关。一项横断面调查的结果（n = 698，49.6％的女孩，Mage = 10.9，SD = 0.69）为这两种假设提供了支持，从而证实了存在至少两种不同途径的关系。尽管移动设备的使用似乎促进了支持儿童自我披露给父母的环境，研究结果还表明，儿童对家庭时间的感知存在负面和间接的联系。但是，当单独考虑儿童和父母之间的社交使用（例如，一起玩游戏）时，这种消极途径就不成立。