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A child psychologist helped his son make progress with his screen addiction. They created a family media plan and locked up tech at night.
The Plug-In Drug: Television, Children, And The Family is a book of social criticism written by Marie Winn and published in 1977 by Viking Press. In it, Winn brought the communications medium of television under withering fire, accusing it of wielding an addictive influence on the very young.
A child watching in front of a TV illustrates the addiction of television on children. Television addiction is a proposed addiction model associated with maladaptive or compulsive behavior associated with watching television programming. [1] [2]
In September 2023, PLOS One published a systematic review and meta-analysis of 16 studies of smartphone addiction and sleep among medical students found that 57% of subjects had poor sleep and 39% of subjects had smartphone addiction with a correlation index of 0.3, [177] while Computers in Human Behavior published a meta-analysis of 23 ...
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The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health did a study on adolescents ranging from 7-12 grade and they found that more screen time increases the risk of obesity. Reducing the amount of time children spend on the internet can prevent getting diseases like obesity and diabetes. [41]
Forms of technology addiction have been considered as diagnoses since the mid 1990s. [3] In current research on the adverse consequences of technology overuse, "mobile phone overuse" has been proposed as a subset of forms of "digital addiction" or "digital dependence", reflecting increasing trends of compulsive behavior among users of technological devices. [4]
Panic engulfed parents, and the district attorney’s office began referring families to Children’s Institute International, a Los Angeles therapy center, where social workers interviewed 400 ...