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Teens Glued to TV, Games Less Attached to Families: Study
And with technology providing us with screens to do everything from entertaining ourselves to educating ourselves, the findings give cause for concern, the authors of the study wrote in the Archives of Pediatric and Adcolescent Medicine.
The study looked at two groups of teens in New Zealand, 16 years apart.
The first group, made up of 976 teens, spent a day at a research unit around about the time they turned 15, in 1987 or 1988, to assess the amount of time they spent watching television on a school day, and their attachment to parents and peers.
The second group was made up of more than 3,000 youngsters who turned 14 or 15 in 2004, when there were more screen opportunities available to youngsters than just watching television -- but not as many as today.
That group completed questionnaires at their schools to find out how long they spent watching TV, DVDs or videos; how long they spent using a computer for anything other than doing homework; and how long they spent playing games on their computer or on a console such as XBox, Playstation or Nintendo.
The second group was also asked how long they spent reading or doing homework. How close they were to friends and family was assessed using the same questionnaire as for the other group, 16 years earlier.
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