Screen media activity does not displace other recreational activities among 9-10 year-old youth: a cross-sectional ABCD study®.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Screen media is among the most common recreational activities engaged in by children. The displacement hypothesis predicts that increased time spent on screen media activity (SMA) may be at the expense of engagement with other recreational activities, such as sport, music, and art. This study examined associations between non-educational SMA and recreational activity endorsement in 9-10-year-olds, when accounting for other individual (i.e., cognition, psychopathology), interpersonal (i.e., social environment), and sociodemographic characteristics.

Methods

Participants were 9254 youth from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study®. Latent factors reflecting SMA, cognition, psychopathology, and social environment were entered as independent variables into lo

SUBMITTER: Lees B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7687784 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature