Do television and electronic games predict children's psychosocial adjustment? Longitudinal research using the UK Millennium Cohort Study

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 98, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 341-348

  Parkes, Alison ^a   Sweeting, Helen ^a   Wight, Daniel ^a   Henderson, Marion ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD PSYCHIATRY; CONDUCT DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRONICS; FAMILY ASSESSMENT; FEMALE; GAME; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MOOD DISORDER; MOTHER; PREDICTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSOCIAL BEHAVIOR; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECREATION; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STRENGTHS AND DIFFICULTIES QUESTIONAIRE; TELEVISION;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONDUCT DISORDER; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TELEVISION; TIME FACTORS; VIDEO GAMES;

EID: 84876293363     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/archdischild-2011-301508     Document Type: Article

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