Association between screen time and cumulating school, behavior, and mental health difficulties in early adolescents: A population-based study

Chau, Kénora; Bhattacherjee, Ashis; Senapati, Amrites; Guillemin, Françis; Chau, Nearkasèn

doi:10.1016/j.psychres.2022.114467

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“…In addition, days of physical activity per week could also play some active role in decrease mental-based scores. These ndings align with prior ndings [39], highlighting that these factors can be considered for intervention in adolescent mental disorders.…”

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Association of Screen Time and Mental Disorders among Chinese Adolescents

Xu,

Duan,

Qin

et al. 2024

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Background: A small number of studies have researched the relationship between screen time and mental disorders. This research aims to investigate the link between screen time and mental disorders in Chinese adolescents, and to examine the role of sleep duration as a mediating factor. Method: Data were collected from 3,307 students using a multi-stage random cluster sampling method and self-administered questionnaires. The study applied linear regression to investigate the relationship between screen time and mental disorders, and mediation analysis to understand how sleep duration might influence this relationship. Results: Teenagers who had more than 2 hours of screen is around 25.5% (33.56% for electronic devices and 17.46% for television), and average mental disorder score was 5.942±0.085 for depression and 4.521±0.076 for anxiety. The linear regression analysis showed that longer electronic devices use (β=0.601, 95%CI: 0.265 to 0.937)), television usage (β=0.751, 95%CI: 0.346 to 1.156) were positively associated with depression, and electronic devices was also positively associated with anxiety (β=0.471, 95%CI:0.159 to 0.784). The study found sleep duration plays a partial mediating role between screen time and mental disorders. For electronic devices, the effect was -27.50% in depression and -44.01% in anxiety; for television, the effect was -42.70% in depression. Limitations: The cross-sectional study design could not prove causation. Conclusions: The association between screen time and mental disorders in adolescents was positive, and sleep duration acting as a mediator. This suggests that future research could focus on screen time and sleep management as ways to address mental disorders in adolescents.

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Association of Screen Time and Mental Disorders among Chinese Adolescents

Xu,

Duan,

Qin

et al. 2024

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“…The association between screen time and suicidality has been reported in previous studies ( 24 – 26 ). Chau et al.…”

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“…Chau et al. found that excessive screen time was associated with an increased risk of school-behavior-mental-health difficulties among adolescents, including suicide attempt ( 24 ). A 10-year longitudinal study by Coyne et al.…”

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Mediation of the association between screen time and suicidality by overweight/obesity and perceived overweight: results from the youth risk behavior surveillance system of the United States

Gao,

Wang,

Wang

et al. 2024

Front. Psychiatry

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AimAdolescent suicide is a major public health concern, and modifiable risk factors associated with adolescent suicide remain poorly understood. This study aimed to assess the association between screen time and overweight/obesity and self-perceived overweigh and suicidality in adolescents.MethodsAdolescents from the United States Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS) between 2013 and 2019 were included in this cross-sectional study. The outcome was suicidality, including considered suicide, made a suicide plan, attempted suicide, and injurious suicide attempt. Multivariable logistic regression model was used to investigate the associations between screen time, overweight/obesity, self-perceived overweight, and suicidality, and expressed as odds ratio (OR) and 95% confidence interval (CI). Mediation analysis was used to explore the role of overweight/obesity and self-perceived overweight on the association between screen time and suicidality.ResultsA total of 30,731 adolescents were included, of which 6,350 (20.65%) had suicidality, including 5,361 (17.45%) with considered suicide, 4,432 (14.42%) with made a suicide plan, 2,300 (7.45%) with attempted suicide, and 677 (2.21%) with injurious suicide attempt. Adolescents with screen time ≥3h were related to higher odds of suicidality (OR=1.35, 95%CI: 1.23-1.46), overweight/obesity (OR=1.27, 95%CI: 1.19-1.38), and self-perceived overweight (OR=1.38, 95%CI: 1.30-1.48) after adjusting confounders. Adolescents with overweight/obesity (OR=1.30, 95%CI: 1.19-1.43) and self-perceived overweight (OR=1.54, 95%CI: 1.39-1.70) were associated with higher odds of suicidality. The association between screen time and suicidality was 4.67% mediated by overweight/obesity and 9.66% mediated by self-perceived overweight. Moreover, the mediating role of overweight/obesity was observed only in females, whereas there were no sex differences in the mediating effect of self-perceived overweight.ConclusionBoth overweight/obesity and self-perceived overweight mediated the association between screen time and suicidality.

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“…The study showed that digital addiction measured with the DAS (Dilci, 2019) levels explained 5% of the variance in the high school students' inquiry skills (Yildiz, 2021). A French population-based study showed through logistic regression modelling that the daily screen time was strongly associated with early adolescents' school, behaviour and mental health difficulties (Chau et al, 2022).…”

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Students’ digital addiction and learning difficulties: shortcomings of surveys in inclusion

Seema

Varik-Maasik

2023

Front. Educ.

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Students have been distance learning to a considerable extent during the Covid years and the primary concerns are teenagers’ learning difficulties, digital addiction and long screen time. Our aim was thus to study teenagers’ perceived learning difficulties, digital addiction and screen time. The current study was a part of a larger e-survey. The data were collected across Estonia from 8,486 teenagers who studied in the inclusive education system during spring 2022. The students were 11–20 years old. While analysing the data, we had to exclude the answers of 315 students. Those students had answered carelessly or inaccurately, had written an inaccurate age, illogical answers or similar answers throughout the test. We studied teenagers’ level of learning difficulties, digital addiction and screen time. The study shows positive correlations between learning difficulties, digital addiction and screen time. Digital addiction and screen time predict 11% of the variability of perceived learning difficulties scores based on a Linear Regression model. The model shows a poor prediction for students whose scores are very different from the mean. We describe the weaknesses of an e-survey method in inclusive education. Linear statistical models predict well for average students, but do not predict well for respondents who are very different from the mean. The so-called residuals need special attention or, paradoxically, exclusion from the statistical analysis. The outliers are often the students who need help in the inclusive system. Here, we will share our insights, what we have learned as researchers from conducting the study. We cannot collect reliable data about special needs students with any wide scale e-survey if we do not address the developmentally heterogeneous group of students and their needs while participating in the survey. This is significant for study reliability as well as gathering data from children with special needs.

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Association between screen time and cumulating school, behavior, and mental health difficulties in early adolescents: A population-based study

Cited by 15 publications

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Association of Screen Time and Mental Disorders among Chinese Adolescents

Association of Screen Time and Mental Disorders among Chinese Adolescents

Mediation of the association between screen time and suicidality by overweight/obesity and perceived overweight: results from the youth risk behavior surveillance system of the United States

Students’ digital addiction and learning difficulties: shortcomings of surveys in inclusion

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