Linebarger (2015)
Conclusion
Linebarger (2015) concludes that there are several and co-dependent factors based on contexts, which cause child behavior problems. Such factors include the environment where a child lives at home, the extent of child-parent relationships, and the genres of videos that a child is exposed to. Video games do not increase levels of hyperactivity among preschool children. Importantly, examining the type of content that a child is exposed whether violent or non-violent, parenting styles along with cumulative risk can be considered to attain better insights into the study area. In the future, the research could find methods with the capacity to measure exposure as well as results more precisely, designs, as well as analyses that incorporate various contextual factors, and studies that enable the coefficients to vary or interact.
Parental perceptions regarding early characteristics of infants may help to predict cognitive, language as well as motor development of infants (Parfitt, Pike & Ayers, 2013). The prenatal depression of the mother significantly affects the language development of an infant. At the same time, the mental health of the child is influenced by parental-infant relationship (Parfitt et al., 2013). Moreover, infant language development alongside paternal perceptions plays an essential role in the father-infant relationship and the eventual cognitive development in the early years. Research in the future could focus on the effect of maternal PTSD after birth on an infant’s cognitive development. Likewise, future research could use more substantial samples and more sophisticated models to assess the relationship among variables used in the study.
Family disruptions alongside the low social and economic status of the child during the early stages in life increase the risk for depression. However, decreasing the disadvantageous situations for a child may help to reduce depression (Gilman, Kawachi & Fitzmaurice, 2003). There is a need for future research to discover the causes of risk for major depression to enhance the creation of individual-focused clinical interventions as well as policies to alleviate the long-term effects of childhood disadvantages.
Multiple factors cause child behavior problems such as hyperactivity occurs when a child is exposed to numerous factors other than playing video games. Also, parents contribute to the development of children based on how they perceive them. Whenever there are disruptions in families or children exposed to low social and economic status, they have higher chances of reporting depression.