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...

OBJECTIVE To assess the influence of media, specifically reality television, on adolescent behavior. STUDY DESIGN A total of 1141 preteen and adolescent girls (age range 11-17) answered questions related to their reality television viewing, personality, self-esteem, relational aggression, appearance focus, and desire for fame. RESULTS Our results indicated that the influence of reality tele...

BACKGROUND Mothers' self-efficacy for limiting their children's television viewing is an important correlate of this behaviour in young children. However, no studies have examined how maternal self-efficacy changes over time, which is potentially important during periods of rapid child development. This study examined tracking of maternal self-efficacy for limiting young children's television v...

OBJECTIVES We tested the associations of content types of children's television viewing with subsequent body mass index (BMI) to assess the plausibility of different causal pathways. METHODS We used time-use diary data from the Panel Survey of Income Dynamics to measure television viewing categorized by format and educational and commercial content. Analyses were stratified by age because chi...

OBJECTIVE To examine whether and to what extent the relationship between television viewing and children's weight status differs according to parental weight status. DESIGN Population-level survey including in-home and telephone interview components. SETTING United States. PARTICIPANTS Representative sample of children aged 6 to 19 years in 2002 (n = 1483). MAIN EXPOSURE Hours of televi...

We aimed to evaluate the association between family socioeconomic status and repeatedly measured child television viewing time from early childhood to the school period. We analyzed data on 3,561 Dutch children from the Generation R Study, a population-based study in the Netherlands. Parent-reported television viewing time for children aged 2, 3, 4, 6 and 9 years were collected by questionnaire...