The goal of the present study is to understand how preadolescents’ perceptions of their parents’ mobile device distraction (“technoference”) are related to their global assessment of family satisfaction. Building on existing research, a model is established that investigates this association through three mediators: parent–child conflict; companionship; and perceived emotional support. Data from a cross-sectional survey (n = 742, 9–13 years, 50.9% girls, mean age =10.85, standard deviation = 0.73) supported most of the associations specified in our model. First, our findings demonstrate that preadolescents who perceived higher amounts of parent technoference also rated the relationship with their parents significantly higher in conflict, and lower in terms of perceived companionship. Moreover, maternal mobile device distraction was significantly associated with less emotional support. All but one of the indirect associations were found to be statistically significant, thus revealing a number of pathways through which technoference is related to preadolescents’ assessments of family satisfaction.

本研究的目的是了解学龄前儿童对其父母的移动设备分心（“技术”）的看法如何与他们对家庭满意度的整体评估有关。在现有研究的基础上，建立了一个模型，通过三个中介来研究这种关联：父母与孩子之间的冲突；友谊; 和感觉到的情感支持。横断面调查数据（n= 742，9–13岁，50.9％的女孩，平均年龄= 10.85，标准差= 0.73）支持我们模型中指定的大多数关联。首先，我们的研究结果表明，感知到较高父母技术支持的青春期前青少年也认为与父母的关系在冲突中明显较高，而在陪伴感方面较低。此外，孕妇移动设备的分心与情感支持减少有关。发现除一个间接联系外，所有联系都具有统计学意义，从而揭示了许多技术途径与青少年对家庭满意度的评估有关。