Abstract

MACHADO, Gabriela Marcolino Alves  and  SALOMAO, Nádia Maria Ribeiro. Traditional parental information sources and the use of the internet in the baby's first year of life. Gerais, Rev. Interinst. Psicol. [online]. 2022, vol.15, n.1, pp. 1-25. ISSN 1983-8220.  http://dx.doi.org/10.36298/gerais202215e17367.

This article investigates the sources of information that contribute to the formation of parental conceptions about the child development of 40 primiparous couples with children aged from 3, 6, 9, and 12 months old. The participants answered a sociodemographic questionnaire and a semi-structured interview, the information was analyzed using the content analysis technique. Four categories emerged from the analysis of the interviews: sources of information used; types of information sought; usefulness of information, and positive and negative aspects of the information sources. The main results indicated that the most used sources of information were: health professionals (96.2%); websites (83.7%); and family members (82.5%). We could understand how traditional sources of information are intertwined with contemporary sources linked to cultural changes related to increased access to the internet and to new technologies. We consider that this work contributes to the understanding of the sources of information that help the beginning of parenting in contemporary times.

Keywords : sources of information; primiparous fathers and mothers; parenting; child development.

        · abstract in Portuguese     · text in Portuguese     · Portuguese ( pdf )