ArticleAppetite2021
The association of adolescents' television viewing with Body Mass Index percentile, food addiction, and addictive phone use.
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12 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- A Systematic Review of Screen Time and Obesity in Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults: Sex-Specific Pathways and Implications for Public Health Interventions.Preventing chronic disease · 2026Pooled it
- Food marketing, eating and health outcomes in children and adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis.The British journal of nutrition · 2025Pooled it
- The association between screen use and central obesity among children and adolescents: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of health, population, and nutrition · 2023Pooled it
- Screen time increases overweight and obesity risk among adolescents: a systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis.BMC primary care · 2022Pooled it
- Screen Time and Body Mass Index Among Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2022Pooled it
- Screen Time, Unhealthy Eating Behaviors, and Associated Health Risks in Children: A Narrative Review.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Behavioural addiction and associated risk factors among high school students.Acta neuropsychiatrica · 2026Article
- The Association Between Daily Screen Time and Childhood Overweight and Obesity: Current Evidence and Potential Mechanisms.International journal of general medicine · 2026Review
- Exploring Food Addiction Across Several Behavioral Addictions: Analysis of Clinical Relevance.Nutrients · 2025Article
- Evaluating adolescent eating autonomy through ecological momentary assessment.Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2025Article
- Intergenerational care and rural childhood obesity in the digital era: Based on screen exposure perspective.SSM - population health · 2024Article
- The relationships between parents' and children's screen times on body mass index: a cross-sectional path analysis.BMC public health · 2022Article
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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 Diaries (TUDs) in 2015-2017. We found that girls had more overall weekday TV time than males. No other gender differences were detected for weekend TV time or commercial TV time. Higher BMI percentile was not correlated with greater overall or commercial TV viewing. However, we did identify a positive association between overall TV viewing and commercial TV viewing with addictive-eating and addictive phone use. This effect was mainly driven by boys. To our knowledge, this is the first study to investigate patterns of television viewing and addictive-like eating and addictive phone use. We conclude that adolescents, particularly boys, with higher TV viewing may be more likely to present with problems with addictive eating behavior and phone use. Our findings add to the research on the behavioral health correlates of TV viewing among adolescents.
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