Concerns about parenting adolescents are not new, but the rapid diffusion of digital technologies has heightened anxieties over digital parenting. Findings are decidedly mixed regarding the impact of digital technologies on adolescent well-being, and parents are left to navigate their concerns without an empirically based road map. A missing link for understanding the state of the science is a clear characterization of how digital parenting is measured, including an evaluation of which areas demand an outsized share of scientific attention and which have been overlooked. To address this gap, we undertook two interdisciplinary systematic reviews of the digital-parenting literature and characterized measurement across (a) quantitative surveys (n = 145 studies) and (b) qualitative focus groups, interviews, codesign studies, and user studies (n = 49). We describe previously popular areas of survey measurement that are of decreasing relevance to parenting of digital spaces (e.g., co-use, hovering). We likewise highlight areas that have been overlooked, including consideration of positive uses of digital technologies, acknowledgment of bidirectional influence, and attention to heterogeneity among families and to extraparental social ecologies of support and monitoring. We provide recommendations for the future of digital-parenting research and propose a more comprehensive approach to measuring how modern adolescents are parented.

对育儿青少年的担忧并不新鲜，但数字技术的迅速传播加剧了人们对数字育儿的焦虑。关于数字技术对青少年福祉的影响，调查结果显然是喜忧参半，父母只能在没有基于经验的路线图的情况下解决他们的担忧。理解科学现状的一个缺失环节是对如何衡量数字育儿的清晰描述，包括评估哪些领域需要大量的科学关注，哪些领域被忽视了。为了解决这一差距，我们对数字育儿文献进行了两项跨学科的系统评价，并通过 (a) 定量调查（n= 145 项研究）和 (b) 定性焦点小组、访谈、协同设计研究和用户研究（n = 49）。我们描述了以前流行的调查测量领域，这些领域与数字空间的育儿相关性降低（例如，共同使用、徘徊）。我们同样强调了被忽视的领域，包括考虑数字技术的积极使用、承认双向影响、关注家庭之间的异质性以及支持和监督的父母之外的社会生态。我们为数字育儿研究的未来提供了建议，并提出了一种更全面的方法来衡量现代青少年的育儿方式。