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Adolescents’ Addictive Phone Use: Associations with Eating Behaviors and Adiposity
Concerns have been raised about excessive or “addictive” phone use among adolescents, and the impact that addictive phone use (APU) can have on adolescent development and health. Most research on the physical health correlates of smartphone use has been limited to sleep health, whereas other outcome...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7216038/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32326344 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17082861 |
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author | Domoff, Sarah E. Sutherland, Emma Q. Yokum, Sonja Gearhardt, Ashley N. |
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description | Concerns have been raised about excessive or “addictive” phone use among adolescents, and the impact that addictive phone use (APU) can have on adolescent development and health. Most research on the physical health correlates of smartphone use has been limited to sleep health, whereas other outcomes, such as eating behaviors and obesity risk have not received as much attention. To address this gap in the literature, we examined the association between APU and emotion regulation difficulties, impulsivity, maladaptive eating behaviors, and adiposity in a sample of 111 adolescents. We found that APU is associated with greater emotion regulation difficulties, dysregulated eating, restrained eating, food addiction, and higher percent body fat. Further, we found that emotion regulation difficulties mediated the association between APU and dysregulated eating, restrained eating, and food addiction. Findings suggest that addictive phone use may confer increased risk for obesogenic eating behaviors and food addiction via challenges in regulating emotions. |
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spelling | pubmed-72160382020-05-22 Adolescents’ Addictive Phone Use: Associations with Eating Behaviors and Adiposity Domoff, Sarah E. Sutherland, Emma Q. Yokum, Sonja Gearhardt, Ashley N. Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Concerns have been raised about excessive or “addictive” phone use among adolescents, and the impact that addictive phone use (APU) can have on adolescent development and health. Most research on the physical health correlates of smartphone use has been limited to sleep health, whereas other outcomes, such as eating behaviors and obesity risk have not received as much attention. To address this gap in the literature, we examined the association between APU and emotion regulation difficulties, impulsivity, maladaptive eating behaviors, and adiposity in a sample of 111 adolescents. We found that APU is associated with greater emotion regulation difficulties, dysregulated eating, restrained eating, food addiction, and higher percent body fat. Further, we found that emotion regulation difficulties mediated the association between APU and dysregulated eating, restrained eating, and food addiction. Findings suggest that addictive phone use may confer increased risk for obesogenic eating behaviors and food addiction via challenges in regulating emotions. MDPI 2020-04-21 2020-04 /pmc/articles/PMC7216038/ /pubmed/32326344 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17082861 Text en © 2020 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/). |
spellingShingle | Article Domoff, Sarah E. Sutherland, Emma Q. Yokum, Sonja Gearhardt, Ashley N. Adolescents’ Addictive Phone Use: Associations with Eating Behaviors and Adiposity |
title | Adolescents’ Addictive Phone Use: Associations with Eating Behaviors and Adiposity |
title_full | Adolescents’ Addictive Phone Use: Associations with Eating Behaviors and Adiposity |
title_fullStr | Adolescents’ Addictive Phone Use: Associations with Eating Behaviors and Adiposity |
title_full_unstemmed | Adolescents’ Addictive Phone Use: Associations with Eating Behaviors and Adiposity |
title_short | Adolescents’ Addictive Phone Use: Associations with Eating Behaviors and Adiposity |
title_sort | adolescents’ addictive phone use: associations with eating behaviors and adiposity |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7216038/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32326344 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17082861 |
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