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The Relationship Between Media In The Home And Family Functioning In Context Of Leisure, Camilla J. Hodge Jun 2011

The Relationship Between Media In The Home And Family Functioning In Context Of Leisure, Camilla J. Hodge

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The purpose of the study was to examine the relationship between media as family leisure and family functioning among families with at least one adolescent child. Specifically, this study examined the relationship between family functioning and media use, media connection, and media monitoring over time. Furthermore, because the data were nested in families, and because most family leisure research has been limited to individual-level analyses, this study incorporated mixed modeling into its analysis which accounted for family-level and individual-level variance. The sample consisted of 500 families participating in the Flourishing Families (FFP) Project, a longitudinal study of inner-family life involving …