ArticlePreventive medicine reports2019
Reciprocal associations between screen time and emotional disorder symptoms during adolescence.
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29 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Unhealthy behaviors associated with mental health disorders: a systematic comparative review of diet quality, sedentary behavior, and cannabis and tobacco use.Frontiers in public health · 2023Pooled it
- Screen time and depression risk: A meta-analysis of cohort studies.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Pooled it
- Physical Activity as a Treatment for Social Anxiety in Clinical and Non-clinical Populations: A Systematic Review and Three Meta-Analyses for Different Study Designs.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2021Pooled it
- The relationship between screen-based sedentary behaviors and symptoms of depression and anxiety in youth: a systematic review of moderating variables.BMC public health · 2020Pooled it
- The Effects of Interrupting Sitting Time on Affect and State Anxiety in Children of Healthy Weight and Overweight: A Randomized Crossover Trial.Pediatric exercise science · 2020Trial
- Factors Associated with Overweight and Obesity and Their Prevalence Among Medical Students in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia: A Cross-Sectional Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Survey Showed That Limiting Daily Screen Time Could Help to Avoid Mental Health Issues in Children Aged 8-17Years.Acta paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992) · 2026Article
- Longitudinal Effects of Adolescent Digital Media Use on Mental Health in Young Adulthood.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Measuring screen time among adolescents: test-retest reliability of HBSC questionnaire items across two countries.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Excessive Screen Time Among U.S. High School Students: Mental Health, Suicidal Ideation and Social Image Factors.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Independent and Joint Prospective Associations of Screen Time and Sleep Disturbance with Body Mass Index and Waist Circumference Among U.S. Adolescents.Childhood obesity (Print) · 2025Article
- Correlates of internalizing and externalizing problems among school-going young adolescents in Sub-Saharan Africa.Maternal & child nutrition · 2025Article
- Screen time and mental health: a prospective analysis of the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Association of physical activity and screen time with cardiovascular disease risk in the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Childhood Maltreatment and Adolescent Eating Disorders' Symptoms: A Moderated Mediation Model of Social Anxiety and Physical Activity.Psychology research and behavior management · 2024Article
- Adolescent internet use predicts higher levels of generalized and social anxiety symptoms for girls but not boys.Preventive medicine reports · 2023Article
- Screen Time and Its Health Consequences in Children and Adolescents.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Association of Physical Activity and Screen Time With Body Mass Index Among US Adolescents.JAMA network open · 2023Article
- Impact of Mobile Phone Screen Exposure on Adolescents' Cognitive Health.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Patterns of Objectively Measured Sedentary Time and Emotional Disorder Symptoms Among Youth.Journal of pediatric psychology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Screen-based sedentary behaviors and emotional disorders are associated with one another in youth. Yet, the direction of the association is unclear, as is whether specific types of screen-based sedentary behaviors and emotional disorder symptoms are more closely linked. This study estimated the bi-directional associations between two types of screen-based sedentary behaviors and four types of self-reported emotional disorder symptoms, and tested whether physical activity buffered these associations in a Los Angeles high school student cohort (
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