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Association Between Screen Time and Children’s Performance on a Developmental Screening Test
Sheri Madigan, PhD; Dillon Browne, PhD; Nicole Racine, PhD; Camille Mori, BA; Suzanne Tough, PhD
JAMA Pediatrics, 28 January 2019
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Generation of child web addicts: Youngsters are becoming so obsessed with the internet they spend more time on YouTube than with friends as parents struggle to keep control of their online usage
By KATHERINE RUSHTON FOR THE DAILY MAIL, 29 January 2019- Shocking scale of children's internet obsession revealed by new Ofcom study
- Seven out of ten take their phone to bed and even under-5s spend hours online
- A fifth of children 8-12 are on social media – despite supposed ban on under-13s
- A growing number of parents admit to having 'lost control' of children's habits
The major Ofcom study comes as analysis shows iPads can stunt children's development
Children have become such screen addicts they are abandoning their friends and hobbies, a major report warns today.
Researchers found under-fives spend an hour and 16 minutes a day online. Their screen time rises to four hours and 16 minutes when gaming and television are included.
Youngsters aged 12 to 15 average nearly three hours a day on the web – plus two more hours watching TV. The study said YouTube was ‘a near permanent feature’ of many young lives, and seven in ten of those aged 12 to 15 took smartphones to bed.
It concluded: ‘Children were watching people on YouTube pursuing hobbies that they did not do themselves or had recently given up offline.’
A growing number of parents admitted to researchers that they had lost control of their children’s online habits.
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Association Between Screen Time and Children’s
Performance on a Developmental Screening Test
Sheri Madigan, PhD; Dillon Browne, PhD; Nicole Racine, PhD; Camille Mori, BA; Suzanne Tough, PhD
JAMA Pediatrics, 28 January 2019
Click on pdf for full text:
Conclusions
One-quarterofchildren arenotdevelopmentally ready for school
entry.1,2Although educational curriculums and programs have
continued to progress, no improvements have been seen in
student academic performance over the past decade,52 which
parallels the period in which technology use and screen time
have rapidly increased.53,54Excessive screen time has been associated with various negative outcomes, including cognitive
delays and poorer academic performance.55,56 To our knowledge,
the present study is the first to provide evidence of a directional
association between screen time and poor performance on
development screening tests among very young children.
As technology use is entrenched in the modern-day lives of
individuals, understanding the directional association between
screen time and its correlates, and taking family-based steps to
engage with technology in positive ways may be fundamental
to ensuring developmental success of children growing up in a
digital age.
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