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Do television and electronic games predict children's psychosocial adjustment? Longitudinal research using the UK Millennium Cohort Study
BACKGROUND: Screen entertainment for young children has been associated with several aspects of psychosocial adjustment. Most research is from North America and focuses on television. Few longitudinal studies have compared the effects of TV and electronic games, or have investigated gender differenc...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3625829/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23529828 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2011-301508 |
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author | Parkes, Alison Sweeting, Helen Wight, Daniel Henderson, Marion |
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description | BACKGROUND: Screen entertainment for young children has been associated with several aspects of psychosocial adjustment. Most research is from North America and focuses on television. Few longitudinal studies have compared the effects of TV and electronic games, or have investigated gender differences. PURPOSE: To explore how time watching TV and playing electronic games at age 5 years each predicts change in psychosocial adjustment in a representative sample of 7 year-olds from the UK. METHODS: Typical daily hours viewing television and playing electronic games at age 5 years were reported by mothers of 11 014 children from the UK Millennium Cohort Study. Conduct problems, emotional symptoms, peer relationship problems, hyperactivity/inattention and prosocial behaviour were reported by mothers using the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire. Change in adjustment from age 5 years to 7 years was regressed on screen exposures; adjusting for family characteristics and functioning, and child characteristics. RESULTS: Watching TV for 3 h or more at 5 years predicted a 0.13 point increase (95% CI 0.03 to 0.24) in conduct problems by 7 years, compared with watching for under an hour, but playing electronic games was not associated with conduct problems. No associations were found between either type of screen time and emotional symptoms, hyperactivity/inattention, peer relationship problems or prosocial behaviour. There was no evidence of gender differences in the effect of screen time. CONCLUSIONS: TV but not electronic games predicted a small increase in conduct problems. Screen time did not predict other aspects of psychosocial adjustment. Further work is required to establish causal mechanisms. |
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spelling | pubmed-36258292013-04-15 Do television and electronic games predict children's psychosocial adjustment? Longitudinal research using the UK Millennium Cohort Study Parkes, Alison Sweeting, Helen Wight, Daniel Henderson, Marion Arch Dis Child Original Article BACKGROUND: Screen entertainment for young children has been associated with several aspects of psychosocial adjustment. Most research is from North America and focuses on television. Few longitudinal studies have compared the effects of TV and electronic games, or have investigated gender differences. PURPOSE: To explore how time watching TV and playing electronic games at age 5 years each predicts change in psychosocial adjustment in a representative sample of 7 year-olds from the UK. METHODS: Typical daily hours viewing television and playing electronic games at age 5 years were reported by mothers of 11 014 children from the UK Millennium Cohort Study. Conduct problems, emotional symptoms, peer relationship problems, hyperactivity/inattention and prosocial behaviour were reported by mothers using the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire. Change in adjustment from age 5 years to 7 years was regressed on screen exposures; adjusting for family characteristics and functioning, and child characteristics. RESULTS: Watching TV for 3 h or more at 5 years predicted a 0.13 point increase (95% CI 0.03 to 0.24) in conduct problems by 7 years, compared with watching for under an hour, but playing electronic games was not associated with conduct problems. No associations were found between either type of screen time and emotional symptoms, hyperactivity/inattention, peer relationship problems or prosocial behaviour. There was no evidence of gender differences in the effect of screen time. CONCLUSIONS: TV but not electronic games predicted a small increase in conduct problems. Screen time did not predict other aspects of psychosocial adjustment. Further work is required to establish causal mechanisms. BMJ Publishing Group 2013-05 2013-03-25 /pmc/articles/PMC3625829/ /pubmed/23529828 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2011-301508 Text en Published by the BMJ Publishing Group Limited. For permission to use (where not already granted under a licence) please go to http://group.bmj.com/group/rights-licensing/permissions This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial License, which permits use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non commercial and is otherwise in compliance with the license. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ and http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/legalcode |
spellingShingle | Original Article Parkes, Alison Sweeting, Helen Wight, Daniel Henderson, Marion Do television and electronic games predict children's psychosocial adjustment? Longitudinal research using the UK Millennium Cohort Study |
title | Do television and electronic games predict children's psychosocial adjustment? Longitudinal research using the UK Millennium Cohort Study |
title_full | Do television and electronic games predict children's psychosocial adjustment? Longitudinal research using the UK Millennium Cohort Study |
title_fullStr | Do television and electronic games predict children's psychosocial adjustment? Longitudinal research using the UK Millennium Cohort Study |
title_full_unstemmed | Do television and electronic games predict children's psychosocial adjustment? Longitudinal research using the UK Millennium Cohort Study |
title_short | Do television and electronic games predict children's psychosocial adjustment? Longitudinal research using the UK Millennium Cohort Study |
title_sort | do television and electronic games predict children's psychosocial adjustment? longitudinal research using the uk millennium cohort study |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3625829/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23529828 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2011-301508 |
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