Reflections of Technology Addiction in Children on Eating Behaviour and Interaction Quality
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Kalçık Üstündağ,
T.
(ed.)
2025.
İletişim Çalışmaları.
Özet
The usage of technology is increasingly woven into the fabric of the lives of children from a young age. On the positive side, technology can provide opportunities that can support the learning and developmental phases of children, with risks being posed to attention, regulation, and eating behaviors from excessive and inappropriate usage. Frequent usage and unhealthy use of digital technology can compromise the interaction between parents and children during the feeding of the former, reduce the awareness generated from the perception of the eating process, and amplify the risk for irregular eating patterns and an increased risk for overweight and obese status. The usage of technology at various developmental phases from infancy to the adolescent phase has implications for the interaction between parents and the antecedent environment related to attitudes and contributes to the risk for the eating behaviors of the children. From the effects posed, the positive expression of technology usage from parents can be considered as a protective factor.
