Examining the Impacts of Parent-Child Interactive Activities

Mightier is a mobile app-based biofeedback video game platform that facilitates emotion regulation skill-building among children ages 6-14. The technology behind Mightier's mobile app has been validated in two independent sham-controlled randomized controlled trials, where the investigators have seen decreases in clinical symptoms of aggression and disruptive behaviors, as well as lowered family stress without adverse events. Mightier will soon introduce offline Mightier Family Games to its product line. Mightier Family Games will include offline, interactive components that have not previously been incorporated into Mightier play. Studies have shown that improvements in child behavior and child-parent relationships are among the many benefits of family play. For the proposed study, families with no prior Mightier exposure will engage in different types of Mightier play for six weeks, to demonstrate the effects of online and offline Mightier play in comparison to the effects of Mightier online play alone. Mightier will recruit families through social media, then Mightier will randomly assign participants to one of two groups: a Mightier online play only group, and a Mightier online and offline play group. The investigators will aim to enroll 20 participants in each group.