Association of types of on-screen content with mental health problems among Chinese adolescents.
Excessive screen time was associated with mental health problems, yet whether the associations differ by screen content types remain unknown. Here, we conducted a cross-sectional study of adolescents from 156 junior and high school to investigate the association of types of on-screen content with me...
| Publicado en: | European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Vol. 34; no. 7; pp. 2169 - 2180 |
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Springer Nature
Jul2025
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=187234947&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 187234947 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 10188827 EJ3 jtl: European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry issn: 10188827 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Jul2025 vid: 34 iid: 7 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature place: New York, New York artinfo: ui: 187234947 181756272 187234947 187234947 10.1007/s00787-024-02632-2 187234947 ppf: 2169 ppct: 11 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P tig: atl: Association of types of on-screen content with mental health problems among Chinese adolescents. aug: au: Zhang, Chengcheng Peng, Weijing Chen, Zhiyan Lai, Cong Xiao, Shuiyuan Hu, Mi affil: https://ror.org/00f1zfq44 Department of Social Medicine and Health Management, Xiangya School of Public Health, Central South University, Changsha, China sug: subj: Screen Time Adolescent Behavior Depression Risk Factors Anxiety Risk Factors Risk Assessment Suicidal Ideation Risk Factors Human Cross Sectional Studies Adolescence Schools, Middle Schools, Secondary China Self Report Questionnaires Chinese Persons In Adolescence Scales Male Female Video Games Online Education Odds Ratio Confidence Intervals Anhedonia Descriptive Statistics Cluster Sample Funding Source Adolescent: 13-18 years Male Female ab: Excessive screen time was associated with mental health problems, yet whether the associations differ by screen content types remain unknown. Here, we conducted a cross-sectional study of adolescents from 156 junior and high school to investigate the association of types of on-screen content with mental health problems in China. The exposure variable was screen exposure, measured by the self-reported questionnaire. Symptoms of depression and anxiety were assessed by Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) and Generalized Anxiety Disorder Scale-7 (GAD-7), respectively. Suicide-related behavior was adapted from the Centers for Disease Control's Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance. Generalized linear models and network analysis were performed. Of the 15,194 adolescents included in the final analysis, 8,019 were males and mean (SD) age was 14.50 (1.68) years. 34.6% of adolescents had an average screen time of ≥ 4 h/day on weekends. The most frequently used screen contents (≥ 4 h/d) were electronic games (9.1%), followed by short video (6.6%). Learning online had strong associations with depression (OR = 2.03, 95%CI: 1.29–3.11, P = 0.002) and anxiety (OR = 2.05, 95%CI: 1.24–3.27, P = 0.004) symptoms. The associations between on-screen content and mental health varied. The strongest edges linked to screen content types were edge between "Electronic games" and "Anhedonia" in the network model. "Control worry" was the most central nodes, followed by "Irritable" and "Worry A Lot". Findings suggested that both screen time and different types of screen content were associated with mental health problems among adolescents. Limiting screen exposure and developing effective interventions to improve mental health should be a priority. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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