Objective To test the independent effects
of television viewing in children before age 3 years and at ages 3 to 5 years on several measures of cognitive outcomes at ages 6 and 7 years.
When TV and marriage meet: A social exchange analysis of the impact of
television viewing on marital satisfaction and commitment.
I never get to watch the shows normally during the day as I
limit television viewing for my kids but I am known on occasion to sneak snippets in.
However, we averaged the viewing estimates from several ages and believe that the associations between child and
adolescent television viewing and education achievement are unlikely to be due to measurement error.
To determine whether cognitive stimulation, emotional support, and
television viewing at age 4 years are independently associated with being a bully at ages 6 through 11 years.
If so, early bullying might prompt reduced emotional support and cognitive stimulation by the parents and
more television viewing.
Although individual programs are identified
within television viewing guides, this system is inadequate for generating the data required for large scale monitoring.
One point eight million
television views tune in to watch the three men vying to be chancellor after the next election clash over the public deficit, taxation policy and spending cuts.
The central questions are whether effective television viewers also tend to be good readers, and whether preschool comprehension skills that are developed in the context of
television viewing relate to later reading achievement.
In fact, you really should take the emphasis of the room away from
mindless television viewing and instead encourage lingering conversations, nights spent reading books and listening to music.
For children with
heavy television viewing only in early childhood, there was no consistent relation with behavioral or social skills outcomes.
A contract signed by parent, student, and teacher establishes a parental commitment to talk about school daily, attend conferences,
limit television viewing, and encourage food study habits.
In the U.S., people over 60 view more television than do members of any other age group, including children; older people, various researchers have shown, list
television viewing as their favorite leisuretime activity.
These findings highlight the negative relationship of the sedentary behaviour of
television viewing time and glycaemic measures, independent of physical activity time and adiposity status.
It may be true that a child's zombielike stare at the TV set is a sign of focus, as he writes, but the positive implication inherent in this statement pales in the face of a large amount of research that links young children's excessive
television viewing with attention, learning and social problems during childhood and teen years.
Several important variables had the potential to confound the relationship between
early television viewing and cognitive outcomes.
Appropriate use of family rules in the home and parental engagement in children's daily activities lowered adolescent obesity risk, but
excessive television viewing heightened adolescent obesity risk.
One of Hulu's big promises with its Live TV service was that it would take advantage of being a digital platform to offer new experiences to viewers that wouldn't have been possible with
traditional television viewing.
As public libraries tried to shift their operation models to meet more people's needs and began installing computer labs,
television viewing areas, audiobook listening rooms, and more, as well as spending their time and battling the issue of ebook lending, Coates explained that the money for actual borrowable books began to dwindle away.
Using a sample of 3,559 households, the study examined the radio and
television viewing habits of both secular and religious programs by residents of the community of New Haven, Connecticut.
The mandatory regulations are embedded in the Children's Television Standards (CTS)[4], which cover
television viewing during C periods.
The researchers suggested that pediatricians might give special attention to parents of high birthweight babies, possibly counseling them on lifestyle habits that could prevent weight gain from a young age, such as
reducing television viewing, encouraging physical activity and avoiding sugary drinks and juice.
Design Using data from a nationally representative data set, we regressed 4 measures of cognitive development at ages 6 and 7 years on
television viewing before age 3 years and at ages 3 to 5 years, controlling for parental cognitive stimulation throughout early childhood, maternal education, and IQ.
Usually after a great catastrophe, news watching is the norm to get as much information as possible but as time wears on, things return to normal as much as possible, which
include television viewing patterns.
On the cultural side, they call for parents to give daily attention to children's homework and reading and to monitor and
restrict television viewing, and they urge communities to participate in drug education and school safety programs.
The study boldly suggests that «
commercial television viewing may supply or supplant (or both) some religious satisfactions and thus lessen the importance of religion for its heavy viewers» (p. 10).