Chinese Parent Dyad Configurations for Preschool Children's Screen Use

A survey-based dataset of 3,290 Chinese parent-child dyads examines screen use-related parenting behaviors. The data, authored by Ming-Chen Zhang and last updated in April 2026, profiles maternal and paternal practices to identify five distinct parenting configurations. It links these profiles to children's problematic screen use levels and explores parental attitudes and behaviors as antecedents.

Use Cases

• Identify latent profiles of parenting behavior configurations based on maternal and paternal practices.
• Analyze correlations between parenting profiles and children's problematic screen use levels.
• Examine how parental screen use attitudes and behaviors serve as antecedents to parenting styles.

Strengths

• Dataset is based on a representative sample of 3,290 parent-child dyads.
• Includes specific demographic details: 44.95% girls, mean child age of 5.34 years (SD=1.47).
• Analysis identified five distinct parenting configurations with clear behavioral distinctions.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to the Chinese sample.

Provenance

Source

figshare, author Ming-Chen Zhang.

Collection Method

Likely contains survey data from a study of parent-child dyads.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-04 13 16:49:25; freshness should be verified.

Geography

China