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

ABSTRACT: 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 twin

SUBMITTER: Clifford S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7492726 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature