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SynthesisProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2018

Screen media use and ADHD-related behaviors: Four decades of research.

Ine Beyens, Patti M Valkenburg, Jessica Taylor Piotrowski

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Synthesis in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 62 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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62citing papers in PubMed, 5 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

62 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 180 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Ine BeyensAmsterdam School of Communication Research, University of Amsterdam, 1001 NG Amsterdam, The Netherlands I.Beyens@uva.nl.
Patti M ValkenburgAmsterdam School of Communication Research, University of Amsterdam, 1001 NG Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Jessica Taylor PiotrowskiAmsterdam School of Communication Research, University of Amsterdam, 1001 NG Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
University of Amsterdam · NL

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The diagnosis of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) among children and adolescents has increased considerably over the past decades. Scholars and health professionals alike have expressed concern about the role of screen media in the rise in ADHD diagnosis. However, the extent to which screen media use and ADHD are linked remains a point of debate. To understand the current state of the field and, ultimately, move the field forward, we provide a systematic review of the literature on the relationship between children and adolescents' screen media use and ADHD-related behaviors (i.e., attention problems, hyperactivity, and impulsivity). Using the Differential Susceptibility to Media effects Model as a theoretical lens, we systematically organize the existing literature, identify potential shortcomings in this literature, and provide directions for future research. The available evidence suggests a statistically small relationship between media and ADHD-related behaviors. Evidence also suggests that individual child differences, such as gender and trait aggression, may moderate this relationship. There is a clear need for future research that investigates causality, underlying mechanisms, and differential susceptibility to the effects of screen media use on ADHD-related behaviors. It is only through a richer empirical body that we will be able to fully understand the media-ADHD relationship.

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Attention Deficit Disorder with HyperactivityModels, PsychologicalMultimediaAdolescentAge FactorsAggressionChildChild, PreschoolFemaleHumansMaleSex FactorsADHDattention problemsindividual differencesmedia effectsmedia theory

Identifiers

PMID30275318
PMCPMC6176582
OpenAlexW2895630669

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