Mccall A Booth
Biographic Data
| ID | 757886 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mccall A Booth |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mccall A |
| FAMILY NAME | Booth |
| SIGNATURE | BOOTH M A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University Bloomington |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0610-8034 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Media emotion regulation and executive functions
Using media to help children regulate difficult emotions (also called regulatory media use) is a process linked to the development of children’s executive functions. Although a necessary condition for establishing causality, the temporal ordering of the relationship between regulatory media use and executive functions has not been explicitly studied. In this study, we examined individual differences in the temporal ordering of the association bet…
Temporal associations between parents’ daily reports of media motivations, infant affect, and parenting behavior
Past research links media use to infant negative affect, and parents report using media to cope. However, trait-level measures mask within-person effects that reflect regulatory and relational mechanisms more directly. In this study, 401 predominantly White (70.32%), college-educated (88.28%) parents (75.31% mothers) of 12- to 24-month-olds ( M age = 16.43, 51.37% boys) completed daily diaries reporting the frequency of parent and child behaviors…
Media as a Locus for Family Ethnic-Racial Socialization
To examine the role of media in family discussions of race and ethnicity, we surveyed a U.S. sample of 834 Asian/Asian American, Black, Hispanic, Indigenous/Native American, and White 10- to 17-year-olds. Based on social relational theory, we conceived of media as a resource and locus for mutual influence, whereby parents and youth may mediate each other’s exposure to ethnic-racial depictions. Consistent with conceptions of race/ethnicity as vert…
IParenting
Patterns of parent media use
The Effect of Aural and Visual Presentation Formats on Categorical and Dimensional Judgements of Emotion for Sung and Spoken Expressive Performances
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of visual information on the perception of emotion in three contexts: a short spoken phrase, an analogous short melody, and a longer melody with greater complexity of pitch and rhythm. Participants without substantial formal music training were assigned to either an audio-only, visual-only, or audiovisual presentation mode; all observed musicians and actors who sang melodies or spoke phrase…
Children’s perceptions of race and ethnicity in media
In 1998, Children Now surveyed 1,200 U.S. 10- to 17-year-olds about TV racial depictions, finding white children reported the most visibility. As a 25-year update, we surveyed 834 U.S. 10- to 17-year-olds: Asian/Asian American (n = 177), Black (n = 206), Hispanic (n = 150), Indigenous/Native American (n = 86), and white (n = 215). More youth now say it’s important to see their race in media, but fewer report seeing their group, with Hispanic and …
Infants’ physiological responses to emotionally salient media with links to parent and child, empathy, prosocial behaviors and media use
Masters of media
The development of problematic media use in early childhood is not well understood. The current study examined long-term associations between parental media efficacy, parental media monitoring, and problematic media use across a three-year period of time during early childhood. Participants included 432 parents who reported on their own parenting and their child’s use of problematic media once a year for three years (M age of child at Wave 1 = 29…
Digital distraction or accessible aid? Parental media use during feedings and parent-infant attachment, dysfunction, and relationship quality
How effective are ACF‐funded couple relationship education programs? A meta‐analytic study
Since 2006, the U.S. Administration for Children and Families (ACF) has allocated $1.2 billion to a Healthy Marriage and Relationship Education (HMRE) policy initiative that provides grants to community organizations to support relationship education (RE) services for lower income couples and individuals. The policy aim was to help disadvantaged couples and individuals form and sustain healthy, stable relationships and marriages. A significant bo…
Princess Power
Princess culture is criticized for contributing to gender stereotypes and poor body esteem, however, there is little longitudinal research examining these claims. This study examines associations between engagement with princess culture during early childhood and gender stereotypes, body esteem, and adherence to hegemonic masculinity in early adolescence. Participants included 307 children (51% female, Mage = 4.83 years, 87% White) who completed …
Domestic bliss, or technological diss? Problematic media use, partner responsiveness, and relationship outcomes
The purpose of this study was to examine how problematic media use (technoference, internet gaming disorder symptoms, and pornography use) predicted later partner relationship outcomes, operating through the mediator of partner responsiveness. Participants ( N = 1039) were from Waves II-IV of a nationally representative quantitative study on marriage relationships across the United States. Both spouses completed surveys reporting problematic medi…
Infants’ response to a mobile phone modified still‐face paradigm
Interruptions to parent–child interactions due to technology, or “technoference,” have been correlated with a host of negative child developmental outcomes. Yet, the influence of technoference on parent–infant interactions and infant behaviors has received less attention and more experimental work is warranted. For this study, parent–infant dyads ( n = 227) completed a modified still‐face paradigm (SFP) using a mobile phone during the still‐face …
Parent–child joint media engagement in infancy
Early conversations are an important source in shaping children's cognitive and emotional development, and it is vital to understand how parents use media as a platform to engage in conversations with their young children and what might predict the quality of these interactions. Thus, in the current study we explored the nature of parent–child discourse while engaging in media (i.e., joint media engagement) with infants, and how parent (empathic …
Does time spent using social media impact mental health
Domestic bliss, or technological diss? Problematic media use, partner responsiveness, and relationship outcomes
The purpose of this study was to examine how problematic media use (technoference, internet gaming disorder symptoms, and pornography use) predicted later partner relationship outcomes, operating through the mediator of partner responsiveness. Participants ( N = 1039) were from Waves II-IV of a nationally representative quantitative study on marriage relationships across the United States. Both spouses completed surveys reporting problematic medi…
Does time spent using social media impact mental health
Infants’ response to a mobile phone modified still‐face paradigm
Interruptions to parent–child interactions due to technology, or “technoference,” have been correlated with a host of negative child developmental outcomes. Yet, the influence of technoference on parent–infant interactions and infant behaviors has received less attention and more experimental work is warranted. For this study, parent–infant dyads ( n = 227) completed a modified still‐face paradigm (SFP) using a mobile phone during the still‐face …
Parent–child joint media engagement in infancy
Early conversations are an important source in shaping children's cognitive and emotional development, and it is vital to understand how parents use media as a platform to engage in conversations with their young children and what might predict the quality of these interactions. Thus, in the current study we explored the nature of parent–child discourse while engaging in media (i.e., joint media engagement) with infants, and how parent (empathic …
Princess Power
Princess culture is criticized for contributing to gender stereotypes and poor body esteem, however, there is little longitudinal research examining these claims. This study examines associations between engagement with princess culture during early childhood and gender stereotypes, body esteem, and adherence to hegemonic masculinity in early adolescence. Participants included 307 children (51% female, Mage = 4.83 years, 87% White) who completed …
Domestic bliss, or technological diss? Problematic media use, partner responsiveness, and relationship outcomes
The purpose of this study was to examine how problematic media use (technoference, internet gaming disorder symptoms, and pornography use) predicted later partner relationship outcomes, operating through the mediator of partner responsiveness. Participants ( N = 1039) were from Waves II-IV of a nationally representative quantitative study on marriage relationships across the United States. Both spouses completed surveys reporting problematic medi…
Digital distraction or accessible aid? Parental media use during feedings and parent-infant attachment, dysfunction, and relationship quality
How effective are ACF‐funded couple relationship education programs? A meta‐analytic study
Since 2006, the U.S. Administration for Children and Families (ACF) has allocated $1.2 billion to a Healthy Marriage and Relationship Education (HMRE) policy initiative that provides grants to community organizations to support relationship education (RE) services for lower income couples and individuals. The policy aim was to help disadvantaged couples and individuals form and sustain healthy, stable relationships and marriages. A significant bo…
Infants’ physiological responses to emotionally salient media with links to parent and child, empathy, prosocial behaviors and media use
Masters of media
The development of problematic media use in early childhood is not well understood. The current study examined long-term associations between parental media efficacy, parental media monitoring, and problematic media use across a three-year period of time during early childhood. Participants included 432 parents who reported on their own parenting and their child’s use of problematic media once a year for three years (M age of child at Wave 1 = 29…
Patterns of parent media use
The Effect of Aural and Visual Presentation Formats on Categorical and Dimensional Judgements of Emotion for Sung and Spoken Expressive Performances
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of visual information on the perception of emotion in three contexts: a short spoken phrase, an analogous short melody, and a longer melody with greater complexity of pitch and rhythm. Participants without substantial formal music training were assigned to either an audio-only, visual-only, or audiovisual presentation mode; all observed musicians and actors who sang melodies or spoke phrase…
Children’s perceptions of race and ethnicity in media
In 1998, Children Now surveyed 1,200 U.S. 10- to 17-year-olds about TV racial depictions, finding white children reported the most visibility. As a 25-year update, we surveyed 834 U.S. 10- to 17-year-olds: Asian/Asian American (n = 177), Black (n = 206), Hispanic (n = 150), Indigenous/Native American (n = 86), and white (n = 215). More youth now say it’s important to see their race in media, but fewer report seeing their group, with Hispanic and …
Media as a Locus for Family Ethnic-Racial Socialization
To examine the role of media in family discussions of race and ethnicity, we surveyed a U.S. sample of 834 Asian/Asian American, Black, Hispanic, Indigenous/Native American, and White 10- to 17-year-olds. Based on social relational theory, we conceived of media as a resource and locus for mutual influence, whereby parents and youth may mediate each other’s exposure to ethnic-racial depictions. Consistent with conceptions of race/ethnicity as vert…
IParenting
Media emotion regulation and executive functions
Using media to help children regulate difficult emotions (also called regulatory media use) is a process linked to the development of children’s executive functions. Although a necessary condition for establishing causality, the temporal ordering of the relationship between regulatory media use and executive functions has not been explicitly studied. In this study, we examined individual differences in the temporal ordering of the association bet…
Temporal associations between parents’ daily reports of media motivations, infant affect, and parenting behavior
Past research links media use to infant negative affect, and parents report using media to cope. However, trait-level measures mask within-person effects that reflect regulatory and relational mechanisms more directly. In this study, 401 predominantly White (70.32%), college-educated (88.28%) parents (75.31% mothers) of 12- to 24-month-olds ( M age = 16.43, 51.37% boys) completed daily diaries reporting the frequency of parent and child behaviors…
Psychology (14 works) · Developmental psychology (10 works) · Child Development and Digital Technology (9 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Impact of Technology on Adolescents (7 works) · Media use (5 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (4 works) · Longitudinal study (4 works) · Sociology (4 works)