Research Article

School-Issued Devices for Home Use in Kindergarten through 5th Grade and Parent Perceptions of Child Learning, Behavior, and Conflict

Table 6

Standardized betas from the regression models predicting frequency of child device use for building academic skills and for entertainment, as well as conflict over the device.

Model 1Model 2Model 3
Build academic skillsEntertainmentConflict over school device use

Controls
Sample (2021 vs. 2020)0.03-0.040.05
Parent gender0.030.190.08
Education0.000.110.11
Income0.07-0.17-0.01
Parent age0.060.17-0.16
Child age0.03-0.080.13
Attention checks0.400.360.05
Parent depression0.280.240.02
Build academic skills-0.04
Entertainment0.65

Training
Training insufficient-0.220.070.29

-value8.397.7310.63
0.460.440.57

, , , and . Gender is coded as 1 = male and 0 = female. Sample is coded as 1 = 2021 data and 0 = 2020 data. All other variables are grand mean centered. Attention check is coded such that higher scores represent more attention checks missed. Interactions with sample (i.e., training × sample) were tested, found to be nonsignificant, and were removed.