Individual, Social, and Physical Environment Factors Associated With Electronic Media Use Among Children: Sedentary Behavior at Home

Background:Individual, home social and physical environment correlates of electronic media (EM) use among children were examined and pattern of differences on school and weekend days.Methods:Youth (n = 298) aged 11 to 12 years self-reported time spent using EM (TV, video/DVD, computer use, and electronic games) on a typical school and a weekend day, each dichotomized at the median to indicate heavy and light EM users. Anthropometric measurements were taken. Logistic regression examined correlates of EM use.Results:In total, 87% of participants exceeded electronic media use recommendations of ≤ 2 hrs/day. Watching TV during breakfast (OR = 3.17) and after school (OR = 2.07), watching TV with mother (OR = 1.96), no rule(s) limiting time for computer game usage (OR = 2.30), having multiple (OR = 2.99) EM devices in the bedroom and BMI (OR = 1.15) were associated with higher odds of being heavy EM user on a school day. Boys (OR = 2.35) and participants who usually watched TV at midday (OR = 2.91) and late at night (OR = 2.04) had higher odds of being a heavy EM user on the weekend.Conclusions:Efforts to modify children’s EM use should focus on a mix of intervention strategies that address patterns and reinforcement of TV viewing, household rules limiting screen time, and the presence of EM devices in the child’s bedroom.

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Connected all the time: A comparative analysis of electronic media use by the youth of different racial groups

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e683212011-087 ◽

2009 ◽

Author(s):

Vadim Moldovan

Keyword(s):

Comparative Analysis ◽

Media Use ◽

Electronic Media ◽

Racial Groups ◽

Electronic Media Use

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A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Media Multitasking in American and Malaysian College Students

International Journal of Cyber Behavior Psychology and Learning ◽

10.4018/ijcbpl.2014070101 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 4 (3) ◽

pp. 1-16

Author(s):

Laura L. Bowman ◽

Bradley M. Waite ◽

Laura E. Levine

Keyword(s):

College Students ◽

Media Use ◽

Electronic Media ◽

Self Report ◽

Cultural Comparison ◽

Cross Cultural Comparison ◽

Electronic Media Use ◽

Reading Activities ◽

Malaysian Students ◽

Report Measure

Asian societies have adopted electronic media in equal measure to western societies. Media use, its impacts and correlates have been examined in western and some Asian societies, but this study is unique in examining Malaysian students' use of media. Malaysian and American college students reported their electronic media use, reading activities and patterns of multitasking with media while studying. They also were administered an academic distractibility questionnaire and a standard self-report measure of impulsiveness. Results indicated that Malaysians reported more electronic media use than Americans as well as more multitasking with media and multitasking while studying. For both Malaysians and Americans, students who reported using social networking while studying scored higher on measures of distractibility and impulsiveness. A more complex pattern of results for other types of media use and reading are described.

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A pilot cluster-randomised study to increase sleep duration by decreasing electronic media use at night and caffeine consumption in adolescents

Sleep Medicine ◽

10.1016/j.sleep.2018.11.010 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 60 ◽

pp. 109-115 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Ahuti Das-Friebel ◽

Nadine Perkinson-Gloor ◽

Serge Brand ◽

Julia F. Dewald-Kaufmann ◽

Alexander Grob ◽

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Keyword(s):

Sleep Duration ◽

Media Use ◽

Electronic Media ◽

Caffeine Consumption ◽

Randomised Study ◽

Cluster Randomised ◽

Electronic Media Use

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Electronic Media Use

Journal of Global Information Management ◽

10.4018/jgim.2014010104 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 22 (1) ◽

pp. 51-69 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Paula Chimenti ◽

Roberto Nogueira ◽

Jose Afonso Mazzon ◽

Marco Rodrigues ◽

Luiz Felipe Hupsel

Keyword(s):

Mobile Phones ◽

Media Use ◽

Strong Predictor ◽

Electronic Media ◽

Pay Tv ◽

Electronic Media Use

The objective of the study is to propose and test a model to understand the factors that impact the use of electronic media in Brazil. A survey was conducted, capturing perceptions about five electronic media – Broadcast TV, Pay-TV, Internet, Mobile Phones and Game Consoles. A sample of 1000 cases was collected by personal interviews in six cities and analyzed using SEM. Attitude is influenced by Image, Entertainment and Content, followed by Communication and Habit. The model explained 80% of Attitude and 90% of Satisfaction. Attitude is a strong predictor of Satisfaction. Attention is explained by Entertainment and Satisfaction.

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Differential Relationships of Child Anxiety and Depression to Child Report and Parent Report of Electronic Media Use

Child Psychiatry & Human Development ◽

10.1007/s10578-019-00892-7 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 50 (6) ◽

pp. 907-917

Author(s):

Payton Q. Fors ◽

Deanna M. Barch

Keyword(s):

Media Use ◽

Child Anxiety ◽

Electronic Media ◽

Parent Report ◽

Anxiety And Depression ◽

Child Report ◽

Electronic Media Use

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Supportive communication with parents moderates the negative effects of electronic media use on life satisfaction during adolescence

International Journal of Public Health ◽

10.1007/s00038-014-0636-9 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 60 (2) ◽

pp. 189-198 ◽

Cited By ~ 23

Author(s):

Meyran Boniel-Nissim ◽

Izabela Tabak ◽

Joanna Mazur ◽

Alberto Borraccino ◽

Fiona Brooks ◽

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Keyword(s):

Life Satisfaction ◽

Media Use ◽

Electronic Media ◽

Supportive Communication ◽

Negative Effects ◽

Electronic Media Use

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Effortful Control Moderates the Relation Between Electronic-Media Use and Objective Sleep Indicators in Childhood

Psychological Science ◽

10.1177/0956797620919432 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 31 (7) ◽

pp. 822-834 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Sierra Clifford ◽

Leah D. Doane ◽

Reagan Breitenstein ◽

Kevin J. Grimm ◽

Kathryn Lemery-Chalfant

Keyword(s):

Sleep Duration ◽

Video Game ◽

Effortful Control ◽

Protective Factor ◽

Media Use ◽

Self Regulation ◽

Electronic Media ◽

Childhood And Adolescence ◽

Sleep Parameters ◽

Electronic Media Use

Electronic-media use is associated with sleep disruptions in childhood and adolescence, although research relies primarily on subjective sleep. Effortful control, a dimension of self-regulation, may mitigate this association by helping children disengage from and regulate responses to media. We examined associations between media use and multiple actigraph-measured sleep parameters at mean and day levels and tested children’s effortful control as a moderator of mean-level relations. We collected actigraph data and parents’ diary reports of children’s prebedtime television, video-game, laptop, desktop, cell-phone, and tablet use in 547 twin children (7–9 years old; 51.74% female). Mean-level media use was associated with bedtime and sleep duration. For the proportion of nights on which twins used media, but not the average number of media types, effortful control attenuated associations between media use and reduced sleep duration and efficiency. Day-level media use was related only to bedtime. Findings replicate and extend existing research and highlight self-regulation as a potential protective factor.

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