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Digital multitasking can be detrimental to a child’s mental health, study warns - Fox News

Digital multitasking can be detrimental to a child’s mental health, study warns - Fox News

Digital multitasking can be detrimental to a child’s mental health, study warns - Fox News
Nov 28, 2021 1 min, 8 secs

Children face a deluge of electronic information from traditional television and computers to tablets, smartphones and video games, but prior studies examining the impact of electronic media on children and adults have yield mixed results.

Unlike other previous published studies which showed a correlation between total time spent on media and poorer outcomes, when this study controlled for other types of media consumption, they found total time spent on media did not contribute to mental health problems, but rather when the children used multiple devices simultaneously, like watching television while texting, this could lead to more stress, behavioral, or emotional issues.

"In contrast to total media time, media multitasking is associated with more frequent ADHD-like behavior as rated by their teachers, when controlling for total media time, gender, and age," the paper noted.

The data also revealed that time spent on electronic devices increased as they grew up, starting at approximately four and a half hours a day around age eight and climbing to over eight by age 12, according to the researchers

And yes, the research confirmed boys spent more time on video games than girls, the paper added

"These analyses reveal that media multitasking more than video gaming and total time on media was associated with adverse psychological outcomes and that media multitasking should therefore be considered more intensively in future studies," the paper concluded

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