Three studies explored the role of television viewing in eliciting subjective self-awareness and positive self-feelings. Study 1 assessed the effects of self-awareness manipulations via exposure to a neutral television program on actual-ideal discrepancies. Those who watched television showed significantly smaller self-discrepancies than those who did not, independent of mood. Study 2 demonstra...

Most studies of sedentary behavior have focused on television use or screen time. This study aims to examine adolescent girls' participation in a variety of recreational sedentary behaviors (e.g., talking on the phone and hanging around), and their association with physical activity (PA), dietary behaviors, and body mass index. Data were from a sample of 283 adolescent girls. Recreational seden...

BACKGROUND This study examines associations between pedometer-determined steps/day and parent-reported child's Body Mass Index (BMI) and time typically spent watching television between school and dinner. METHODS Young people (aged 5-19 years) were recruited through their parents by random digit dialling and mailed a data collection package. Information on height and weight and time spent wat...

BACKGROUND Television is a source from which children gain information about life and experience different types of behavior. The Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) has not been used thoroughly to evaluate the behavioral effects of television viewing on children. OBJECTIVE To examine the competency and problem behavior correlates of television viewing in school-aged children using the CBCL. DE...

OBJECTIVE To examine the relationship between blood glucose control and the time spent watching television in Norwegian children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes in a population-based study. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS A total of 538 children and adolescents from 9 hospitals in the eastern part of Norway participated in the study; 70% of eligible subjects participated. The time spent watc...

BACKGROUND Few young people meet television viewing guidelines. PURPOSE To determine the association between factors in the family and home environment and watching television, including videos and DVDs, in early adolescence. METHODS Cross-sectional, self-report survey of 343 adolescents aged 12-13 years (173 girls), and their parents (338 mothers, 293 fathers). Main measures were factors i...

INTRODUCTION American Indian children have high rates of overweight and obesity, which may be partially attributable to screen-time behavior. Young children's screen-time behavior is strongly influenced by their environment and their parents' behavior. We explored whether parental television watching time, parental perceptions of children's screen time, and media-related resources in the home a...

July 26, 2016 355 CORRPONDENCE A lthough case series reporting pulmonary embolism or deep vein thrombosis after prolonged television watching have been published,1 no prospective study has examined the association between time spent watching television and the risk of mortality from pulmonary embolism. We examined this association in a large cohort study of Japanese men and women. The Japanese ...

BACKGROUND The aim was to investigate which individual and family environmental factors are related to television and computer time separately in 10- to-12-year-old children within and across five European countries (Belgium, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Norway). METHODS Data were used from the ENERGY-project. Children and one of their parents completed a questionnaire, including questions on sc...

Mad cow disease has been considered the biggest issue in South Korea since 2008. Given the great concern, television news has played a key role in educating people about the issues related to mad cow disease. Therefore, this study examined how watching television news coverage of mad cow disease influenced risk perception of the disease. As theoretical background, uses and gratifications perspe...