Parents’ Attitudes on Children’s Online use (PACO)

Summary

Amid rising concern regarding the impact of digital technology on youth development, caregiver perspectives remain under-researched. The Parents’ Attitudes on Children’s Online use (PACO) survey was synthesized to capture lines of inquiry from a panel of leading experts to address critical gaps in our understanding of how parents and caregivers view, regulate, and respond to their child’s technology use. Our dataset provides comprehensive responses from 1,002 U.S. parents and caregivers, collected via an online REDCap survey distributed through Prolific Academic. We utilized a stratified sampling approach to ensure developmental relevance across the transition from childhood to young adulthood across four distinct age-based cohorts (7-10, 11-14, 15-18, and 19-22 years; target n=250 per cohort). The data also include APQ-9 responses, a standardized psychological scale, and qualitative responses about social media definitions analyzed via cosine similarity techniques. This open science resource enables researchers in psychology, education, and digital health to explore contemporary questions about family-based digital mediation and youth well-being.

Investigators

Bagheri Hamaneh, S., Kass, M., Roberts, M., Droney, I., Jordan, C., Kotani, Y., Newman, L., Kiar, G., Odgers, C., Etchells, Pete., Schleider, J., Prinstein, M., Milham, M.P.

Funding

This work was supported by The State of California’s Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) under the Children and Youth Behavioral Health Initiative (CYBHI). Note: DHCS and the CYBHI had no role in study design, data collection, analysis, or interpretation of this data).

Usage Agreements

None

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