Time use and associations with internalizing symptoms from 1991 to 2019 among US adolescents

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Adolescent time use in recent cohorts is distinguished by large-scale changes, including shifts in parental monitoring, supervision, and adolescent activity patterns, that together may provide a more complete perspective on changing patterns of mental health than can be captured by single risk factors.

Methods

To determine whether patterns of adolescent time use explain recent increases in depressive and other internalizing symptoms, we first conducted latent profile analyses of 465,839 adolescents, grades 8/10, from annual, cross-sectional Monitoring the Future surveys, years:1991–2019, using twenty-one variables (e.g., frequency of attending parties) to identify groups based on patterns of time use. Most of the sample was female (51.0%), non-Hispanic white

SUBMITTER: Kreski N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9365953 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature