Parents regularly use media to help regulate their child's difficult emotions, particularly for those with a more difficult temperament. However, no research has examined how this may be related to the development of problematic (or addictive-like) media use in early childhood. The purpose of the study was to examine associations between temperament, parental media emotion regulation, and problematic media use in young children, using both questionnaires and observational data. Participants included 269 toddlers (2–3 years old) and their parents, who completed several observational tasks and questionnaires. Analyses revealed that higher levels of media emotion regulation was associated with more problematic media use and more extreme emotions when media was removed in toddlers. Additionally, temperament (specifically negative affect and surgency) was related to problematic media and extreme emotions and was mediated by media emotion regulation. Parents should avoid using media as a primary way of regulating their children's emotions as this may be related to the development of problematic media strategies during infancy.

父母经常使用媒体来帮助调节孩子的困难情绪，特别是对于那些性格比较困难的孩子。然而，还没有研究探讨这与幼儿时期有问题（或成瘾的）媒体使用的发展有何关系。该研究的目的是通过问卷和观察数据来检查幼儿的气质、父母媒体情绪调节和有问题的媒体使用之间的关联。参与者包括 269 名幼儿（2-3 岁）及其父母，他们完成了多项观察任务和问卷调查。分析显示，较高水平的媒体情绪调节与幼儿更多的媒体使用问题以及当媒体被移除时更极端的情绪相关。此外，气质（特别是负面情绪和冲动）与有问题的媒体和极端情绪有关，并受到媒体情绪调节的调节。父母应避免使用媒体作为调节孩子情绪的主要方式，因为这可能与婴儿期有问题的媒体策略的发展有关。