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12-year-old children consume on average 8 1/4 hours of media daily, with media multitasking associated with worse mental health outcomes but videogaming associated with better mental health outcomes

11.17.21 | PLOS

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Fig 3. Partial Spearman correlation profiles of time spent on video games
Fig 3. Partial Spearman correlation profiles of time spent on video games (controlling for age, gender and total hours of media and media multitasking). The three panels depict time spent on any kind of video games (left panel) or when considering separately time on action-like (middle panel) and non-action-like video games (right panel). Credit: Cardoso-Leite et al., 2021, PLOS ONE, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

12-year-old children consume on average 8 1/4 hours of media daily, with media multitasking associated with worse mental health outcomes but videogaming associated with better mental health outcomes

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Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0259163

Article Title: Media use, attention, mental health and academic performance among 8 to 12 year old children

Author Countries: Luxembourg, Switzerland

Funding: This research was supported by the Luxembourg National Research Fund (ATTRACT/2016/ID/11242114/DIGILEARN) to PCL and the Swiss National Funds 100014_159506 and the Klaus J. Jacobs Foundation to DB. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

PLOS ONE

10.1371/journal.pone.0259163

Media use, attention, mental health and academic performance among 8 to 12 year old children

17-Nov-2021

The authors declare no conflict of interest regarding this publication. Daphne Bavelier declares she is a member of the scientific advisory board of Akili Interactive, Boston.

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Fig 2. Partial Spearman correlation profiles of total hours of media
Fig 2. Partial Spearman correlation profiles of total hours of media (controlling for age, gender and MMI; left panel) and media multitasking (MMI; controlling for age, gender and total hours of media; right panel). Credit: Cardoso-Leite et al., 2021, PLOS ONE, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Keywords

Children Cultural Anthropology Cultural Practices Games Health and Medicine Mental Health Social Sciences Sociology Video Games Young People

Article Information

Journal
PLOS ONE
DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0259163
Article Publication Date
2021-11-17
Article Title
Media use, attention, mental health and academic performance among 8 to 12 year old children
COI Statement
The authors declare no conflict of interest regarding this publication. Daphne Bavelier declares she is a member of the scientific advisory board of Akili Interactive, Boston.

Contact Information

Hanna Abdallah
PLOS
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How to Cite This Article

APA:
PLOS. (2021, November 17). 12-year-old children consume on average 8 1/4 hours of media daily, with media multitasking associated with worse mental health outcomes but videogaming associated with better mental health outcomes. Brightsurf News. https://www.brightsurf.com/news/1EOO993L/12-year-old-children-consume-on-average-8-14-hours-of-media-daily-with-media-multitasking-associated-with-worse-mental-health-outcomes-but-videogaming-associated-with-better-mental-health-outcomes.html
MLA:
"12-year-old children consume on average 8 1/4 hours of media daily, with media multitasking associated with worse mental health outcomes but videogaming associated with better mental health outcomes." Brightsurf News, Nov. 17 2021, https://www.brightsurf.com/news/1EOO993L/12-year-old-children-consume-on-average-8-14-hours-of-media-daily-with-media-multitasking-associated-with-worse-mental-health-outcomes-but-videogaming-associated-with-better-mental-health-outcomes.html.