NIH R01 · 2025
Project Summary Today’s children spend an average of seven hours a day engaging with different types of Screen Media Activity (SMA), such as social media use, video gaming, watching TV or videos, and communicating with their peers. Mixed findings from small studies in adolescents and adults suggest that SMA is related to psychopathology, emotional regulation, and cognition. Importantly, there’s a lack of large longitudinal studies addressing if these effects are consequences of SMA or explaining how different types of SMA may impact child physical, emotional, cognitive and neural development. For example, do TV watching and video gaming have similar impact(s), if any, on children’s mental…
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