Impact of parent-child attachment on children′s emotional development: Challenges and strategies in the digital era

LIU Qiaoyun

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Chinese Journal of Child Health Care ›› 2025, Vol. 33 ›› Issue (7) : 697-701. DOI: 10.11852/zgetbjzz2025-0662

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Impact of parent-child attachment on children′s emotional development: Challenges and strategies in the digital era

LIU Qiaoyun

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Parent-child attachment serves as the cornerstone of children′s emotional development.Parent-child attachment encompasses secure, avoidant, ambivalent, and disorganized types.Both attachment styles and age exert influences on children′s emotional growth, affective understanding, and regulation.In the digital era, phenomena such as "technoference", "excessive screen exposure" , and "behavioral modeling-enhanced control" pose significant threats to the formation of secure parent-child attachment, thereby impacting children′s emotional development.This paper proposes the STEP strategy, which includes Selecting appropriate digital content, engaging Together in digital product usage, Engineering well-designed timing and contexts for digital use, and Promoting parents′ interactive competencies scientifically.This framework aims to facilitate the scientific transition of parent-child attachment into the digital age and foster healthy emotional development in children.

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parent-child attachment / emotional development / digital era / technological interference / screen exposure

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LIU Qiaoyun. Impact of parent-child attachment on children′s emotional development: Challenges and strategies in the digital era[J]. Chinese Journal of Child Health Care. 2025, 33(7): 697-701 https://doi.org/10.11852/zgetbjzz2025-0662

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