Research has found that media is associated with children's prosocial behavior (PB) from an early age, and that parents play a key role in children's media use and behavior. However, few studies explore these relations as early as infancy while also controlling for well-established predictors of PB (e.g., empathic concern). Thus, the present study examined longitudinal associations between parents' PB and media use, and prosocial development during early childhood, mediated by children's own media use. Participants were 519 children (M age at Time 1 = 17.77 months) and parents who participated in three timepoints of an ongoing, longitudinal study. A longitudinal path model suggested that children's media use was still significantly associated with PB 1 year later after accounting for factors such as parents' PB, media use, and empathy. These findings have important implications for the early development of behaviors that serve as a foundation for social and moral development.

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父母亲社会行为和媒体使用与幼儿亲社会发展之间的纵向关联：儿童媒体使用的中介作用

研究发现，媒体与儿童从小的亲社会行为（PB）有关，而父母在儿童的媒体使用和行为中发挥着关键作用。然而，很少有研究早在婴儿期就探索这些关系，同时也控制了 PB 的既定预测因素（例如，共情关注）。因此，本研究考察了父母的PB与媒体使用之间的纵向关联，以及儿童早期亲社会发展（由儿童自己的媒体使用介导）之间的纵向关联。参与者是 519 名儿童（时间 1 的 M 年龄 = 17.77 个月）和父母，他们参加了一项正在进行的纵向研究的三个时间点。纵向路径模型表明，在考虑了父母的PB、媒体使用和同理心等因素后，一年后儿童的媒体使用仍然与PB显着相关。这些发现对于作为社会和道德发展基础的早期行为发展具有重要意义。