Screenieboppers and extreme screenies: The place of screen time in the time budgets of 10-13 year-old Australian children

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 137-142

  Olds, Tim ^a   Ridley, Kate ^b   Dollman, Jim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; AUSTRALIA; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; MALE; MULTIMEDIA; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECREATION; SCHOOL; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; SLEEP TIME; SOCIAL STATUS; TELEVISION; TIME MANAGEMENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CAUSALITY; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; COMPUTER TERMINALS; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MOTION PICTURES; OBESITY; SCHOOLS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SLEEP; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOUTH AUSTRALIA; TELEVISION; TIME FACTORS; VIDEO GAMES;

EID: 33646242279     PISSN: 13260200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-842X.2006.tb00106.x     Document Type: Article

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