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Associations among Screen Time and Unhealthy Behaviors, Academic Performance, and Well-Being in Chinese Adolescents

Screen time is negatively associated with markers of health in western youth, but very little is known about these relationships in Chinese youth. Middle-school and high-school students (n = 2625) in Wuhan, China, completed questionnaires assessing demographics, health behaviors, and self-perception...

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Autores principales: Yan, Hanyi, Zhang, Rui, Oniffrey, Theresa M., Chen, Guoxun, Wang, Yueqiao, Wu, Yingru, Zhang, Xinge, Wang, Quan, Ma, Lu, Li, Rui, Moore, Justin B.
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5486282/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28587225
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph14060596
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author Yan, Hanyi
Zhang, Rui
Oniffrey, Theresa M.
Chen, Guoxun
Wang, Yueqiao
Wu, Yingru
Zhang, Xinge
Wang, Quan
Ma, Lu
Li, Rui
Moore, Justin B.
author_facet Yan, Hanyi
Zhang, Rui
Oniffrey, Theresa M.
Chen, Guoxun
Wang, Yueqiao
Wu, Yingru
Zhang, Xinge
Wang, Quan
Ma, Lu
Li, Rui
Moore, Justin B.
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description Screen time is negatively associated with markers of health in western youth, but very little is known about these relationships in Chinese youth. Middle-school and high-school students (n = 2625) in Wuhan, China, completed questionnaires assessing demographics, health behaviors, and self-perceptions in spring/summer 2016. Linear and logistic regression analyses were conducted to determine whether, after adjustment for covariates, screen time was associated with body mass index (BMI), eating behaviors, average nightly hours of sleep, physical activity (PA), academic performance, and psychological states. Watching television on school days was negatively associated with academic performance, PA, anxiety, and life satisfaction. Television viewing on non-school days was positively associated with sleep duration. Playing electronic games was positively associated with snacking at night and less frequently eating breakfast, and negatively associated with sleep duration and self-esteem. Receiving electronic news and study materials on non-school days was negatively associated with PA, but on school days, was positively associated with anxiety. Using social networking sites was negatively associated with academic performance, but positively associated with BMI z-score, PA and anxiety. Screen time in adolescents is associated with unhealthy behaviors and undesirable psychological states that can contribute to poor quality of life.
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spelling pubmed-54862822017-06-30 Associations among Screen Time and Unhealthy Behaviors, Academic Performance, and Well-Being in Chinese Adolescents Yan, Hanyi Zhang, Rui Oniffrey, Theresa M. Chen, Guoxun Wang, Yueqiao Wu, Yingru Zhang, Xinge Wang, Quan Ma, Lu Li, Rui Moore, Justin B. Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Screen time is negatively associated with markers of health in western youth, but very little is known about these relationships in Chinese youth. Middle-school and high-school students (n = 2625) in Wuhan, China, completed questionnaires assessing demographics, health behaviors, and self-perceptions in spring/summer 2016. Linear and logistic regression analyses were conducted to determine whether, after adjustment for covariates, screen time was associated with body mass index (BMI), eating behaviors, average nightly hours of sleep, physical activity (PA), academic performance, and psychological states. Watching television on school days was negatively associated with academic performance, PA, anxiety, and life satisfaction. Television viewing on non-school days was positively associated with sleep duration. Playing electronic games was positively associated with snacking at night and less frequently eating breakfast, and negatively associated with sleep duration and self-esteem. Receiving electronic news and study materials on non-school days was negatively associated with PA, but on school days, was positively associated with anxiety. Using social networking sites was negatively associated with academic performance, but positively associated with BMI z-score, PA and anxiety. Screen time in adolescents is associated with unhealthy behaviors and undesirable psychological states that can contribute to poor quality of life. MDPI 2017-06-04 2017-06 /pmc/articles/PMC5486282/ /pubmed/28587225 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph14060596 Text en © 2017 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Wang, Quan
Ma, Lu
Li, Rui
Moore, Justin B.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5486282/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28587225
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph14060596
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