Parenting in Digital Age: Scoping Review and Literature Review

Digital technologies (DT) are increasingly integrated into the life of the modern family and in parent-child interactions, but despite a large body of work on this topic, publications are often quite isolated from each other. This review was performed in order to describe the subject area of DT integration in the lives of contemporary parents and in their practices of interaction with the child, and to consider the full range of research within this topic. Relevant literature was selected following the steps of the model for systematic reviews and meta-analyses PRISMA in the Dimensions and eLibrary databases. The quantitative analysis included 1241 foreign and 61 Russian publications; then 61 Russian papers were analyzed qualitatively. Four clusters of research focuses on the integration of DT into parenting were identified: "Parent-user" (user behaviour of parents), “Parent-mediator” (mediating a child's online presence, helping a child with online learning, communication with teachers and digital monitoring of children's mobility), “Parent-learner” (online programmes for parents), “Parent in a pandemic” (the context that has to a large extent determined the objectives of the study on parenthood). Promising and under-researched areas at present include the value and resource aspects of parenting using DT, and the development and measurement of the effectiveness of online parenting education.

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