Involvement is an important mediating factor in judgements concerning user experience. Concept mapping was used to further understand and define the construct of involvement within the context of watching television.

Objective A matched case-control study was conducted in a Spanish children and adolescent population (5-18 years old), to assess the interaction between the Gln27Glu polymorphism of the ADRB2 and television (TV) watching on obesity risk. 25

OBJECTIVES Despite the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommending that electronic media be avoided in children under two years of age, screen use is common in infants and toddlers. The aims of this study were to determine how parenting style, infant temperament, and family type are associated with television viewing in two-year-old children. STUDY DESIGN Participants were from the Prev...

Much attention has been paid to the amount of time Americans spend watching television. Cultivation theory has been important in exploring behavioral effects of television viewing for many years. However, psychosocial health has received much less scrutiny in relation to television viewing time. This investigation examined the hypotheses that television-free individuals and viewers adhering to ...

Television viewing and aggressive behavior were assessed over a 17-year interval in a community sample of 707 individuals. There was a significant association between the amount of time spent watching television during adolescence and early adulthood and the likelihood of subsequent aggressive acts against others. This association remained significant after previous aggressive behavior, childho...

Due to the deregulation of the German television market and the advent of new ways of watching television (pay-, internet-, digital-TV) competition is intensifying and the complexity of TV behavior is growing faster than our research methods. This creates a need for new methods of analysis. This paper outlines various innovative techniques to explain, simulate and forecast television viewing pa...

INTRODUCTION The purpose of this study was to examine the associations among television viewing, eating practices, and overweight and health status of a nationally representative sample of adults in the United States. METHODS Data on adults aged 20 years or older from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Continuing Survey of Food Intakes by Individuals 1994-1996 were used for the study. Parti...

Television streaming services afford experiences that align with and go beyond what linear television affords. These experiential differences relate to self-scheduling opportunities how on-demand are organized as libraries of content. The aim this article is conceptualize investigate conditions related agency associated the enjoyment watching television. first conceptualizes develops measures r...

This study tested the direct effect of watching thin ideal children's television on body satisfaction in preadolescent girls (6-8 years old). A within-subject design was used in which girls (N = 51) were tested three times. They watched television clips in random order containing either (1) thin ideal animated characters or (2) animated characters with no thin ideal features or (3) 'real' human...

The present study was aimed to investigate the prevalence of obesity and its covariates including age among adult Khatri males and females. A total of 805 subjects (male = 381, female = 424) between age of 18 yr to 71 + yr residing in Shahjahanpur city, Uttar Pradesh, India were studied cross sectionally. The study highlights the trend of obesity in the population and also discusses in detail, ...