ArticleJournal of youth and adolescence2023
Trajectories of Screen Time across Adolescence and Their Associations with Adulthood Mental Health and Behavioral Outcomes.
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- Exploring genetic confounding of the associations between screen time and depressive symptoms in adolescence and early adulthood.International journal of epidemiology · 2026Article
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- Association between increased screen time during the COVID-19 pandemic and changes in alcohol use behaviours among Canadian adolescents: a prospective cohort study.Health promotion and chronic disease prevention in Canada : research, policy and practice · 2025Article
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- Sleep quality moderated the mediating effect of BMI and waist circumference on the relationship between screen time and mental health in Chinese adolescents.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2025Article
- Study on the influence mechanism of internet risks on the development risks of Chinese adolescents: the mediating role of digital dependence and the moderating role of digital skills.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Regulation Strategies, Contextual Problems, Addictive and Suicidal Behaviors: A Network Perspective with Adolescents.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Screen time trajectories and psychosocial well-being among Chinese adolescents: a longitudinal study.BMC psychiatry · 2024Article
- Bedtime Screen Use Behaviors and Sleep Outcomes in Early Adolescents: A Prospective Cohort Study.The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine · 2024Article
- Daily Screen Time Among Teenagers: United States, July 2021-December 2023.NCHS data brief · 2024Article
- A Population-Based Analysis of the Temporal Association of Screen Time and Aggressive Behaviors in Adolescents.JAACAP open · 2023Article
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Abstract
Excessive screen time among adolescents is discussed as a significant public health concern. Identifying adolescent longitudinal patterns of time spent on regularly-used media screens and understanding their young adulthood mental health and behavioral issue correlates may help inform strategies for improving these outcomes. This study aimed to characterize joint developmental patterns of time spent on videogames, surfing/chatting the Internet, and TV/DVDs during adolescence (at ages 11, 13, 15, 17) and their associations with mental health (i.e., depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation, and self-injury) and behavioral issues (i.e., substance use, delinquency, aggression) in early adulthood (at age 20). A parallel-process latent class growth analysis was used to model data from a diverse community-ascertained sample of youth in Zurich, Switzerland (n = 1521; 51.7% males). Results suggested that a five-class model best fitted the data: (1) low-screen use, 37.6%; (2) increasing chatting/surfing, 24.0%; (3) moderate-screen use, 18.6%; (4) early-adolescence screen use, 9.9%; and (5) increasing videogame and chatting/surfing, 9.9%. After adjusting for baseline levels of outcomes (primarily at age 11), the trajectory groups differed in their associations with adulthood outcomes of mental health and behavioral problems, indicating the importance of problematic screen usage patterns in predicting these outcomes. Future research to test the directionality of these associations will be important. These findings suggest which patterns of screen use may be a marker for later mental health and behavioral issues in different domains.
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