Associations between content types of early media exposure and subsequent attentional problems
Associations between content types of early media exposure and subsequent attentional problems
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DOI：
10.1542/peds.2006-3322
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发表时间：
2007-11-01
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8
通讯作者：
Christakis, Dimitri A.
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作者：
Zimmerman, Frederick J.;Christakis, Dimitri A.
OBJECTIVE.在非常年幼的儿童中，看电视和视频/DVD已经变得既普遍又沉重。以前的研究报告了早期媒体接触和注意力调节问题之间的联系，但没有关于儿童观看的内容类型的数据。我们测试了这一假设，即早期观看3种内容类型的电视与随后的注意力问题有关。3种不同的内容类型是教育，非暴力娱乐和暴力娱乐。参与者是1997年收集并于2002年重新评估的全国代表性样本中的儿童。该分析是一个逻辑回归的高分的有效的父母报告的注意力问题的措施，回归早期电视暴露的内容和几个重要的社会人口控制变量。3岁之前观看教育电视与5年后的注意力问题无关。然而，在3岁之前观看暴力或非暴力娱乐电视与随后的注意力问题显着相关，并且这种关联的程度很大。在4至5岁时观看任何内容类型与随后的问题无关。早期看电视和随后的注意力问题之间的关联是特定于非教育性观看和3岁之前观看。
OBJECTIVE. Television and video/DVD viewing among very young children has become both pervasive and heavy. Previous studies have reported an association between early media exposure and problems with attention regulation but did not have data on the content type that children watched. We tested the hypothesis that early television viewing of 3 content types is associated with subsequent attentional problems. The 3 different content types are educational, nonviolent entertainment, and violent entertainment.METHODS. Participants were children in a nationally representative sample collected in 1997 and reassessed in 2002. The analysis was a logistic regression of a high score on a validated parent-reported measure of attentional problems, regressed on early television exposure by content and several important sociodemographic control variables.RESULTS. Viewing of educational television before age 3 was not associated with attentional problems 5 years later. However, viewing of either violent or nonviolent entertainment television before age 3 was significantly associated with subsequent attentional problems, and the magnitude of the association was large. Viewing of any content type at ages 4 to 5 was not associated with subsequent problems.CONCLUSIONS. The association between early television viewing and subsequent attentional problems is specific to noneducational viewing and to viewing before age 3.