The association of adolescents' television viewing with Body Mass Index percentile, food addiction, and addictive phone use.

ABSTRACT: Television (TV) viewing remain a popular forms of screen time for adolescents. Greater TV viewing is associated with a number of negative consequences for adolescent health. In a changing media landscape, it is important to understand adolescents' overall and commercial TV exposure, and how TV viewing is linked to health risks (e.g., obesity, food addiction, and phone addiction). The purpose of this study was to: 1) examine differences by age, gender, race/ethnicity, and parental education in overall TV and commercial TV viewing and 2) investigate whether adolescents who watch more overall TV and commercial TV programming were more likely to have a higher BMI percentile, more addictive eating, and more addictive phone use. A sample of 190 adolescents (13-16 years of age) completed Time-Use

SUBMITTER: Domoff SE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7855083 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature