ArticleFrontiers in psychology2019
Media Multitasking Is Associated With Higher Body Mass Index in Pre-adolescent Children.
Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
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- The Impact of Digital Devices on Children's Health: A Systematic Literature Review.Journal of functional morphology and kinesiology · 2024Review
- Digital Addiction and Sleep.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Review
- Attention to food cues following media multitasking is associated with cross-sectional BMI among adolescents.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Children's Health in the Digital Age.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Review
- Using Smartphones When Eating Increases Caloric Intake in Young People: An Overview of the Literature.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Review
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Abstract
Obesity rates among children have climbed dramatically in the past two decades, a time period in which children also experienced greater exposure to portable media devices and smartphones. In the present study, we provide evidence of a potential link between media multitasking - using and switching between unrelated forms of digital media - and risk for obesity, as indexed by body mass index (BMI). Specifically, we recruited 179 pre-adolescent children (aged 9-11 years, 88 females) to participate in a study in which we assessed their media multitasking (MMT) tendencies, as well as BMI. Controlling for the influence of a known genetic risk factor for obesity and other covariates, including physical activity, we found a positive association between the frequency of children's MMT behaviors and age- and sex-standardized BMI
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