1. Objectifs

Intentions :
«[I]n the present study, we use a population-based birth cohort to verify whether televiewing at age 2 years is prospectively associated with self-reported difficulties in social relations at age 13 years, which corresponds to the end of the first year of middle school.» (p. 3330-3331)

2. Méthode

Échantillon/Matériau :
Les données sont issues d’une étude longitudinale sur le développement de l’enfant menée au Québec auprès d’une cohorte de 2837 enfants née en 1997 et 1998. For this research, the «data were collected for 991 girls and 1006 boys at age 2 years (specifically, 29 months), thus creating our subsample for analyses. Outcome variable data were collected at age 13 years (158 months).» (p. 3331)

Instruments :
Questionnaire

Type de traitement des données :
Analyse statistique

3. Résumé

The results shows that «children with less educated parents watched more television […] and children from single-parent families watched more television […] at age 2 years, compared with children from more educated and two-parent families, respectively.» (p. 3332) «[O]ur self-reported findings revealed long-term risks for developmental psychopathology. Moreover, save for social isolation, televiewing at age 13 years also showed additional concurrent risks for social impairment. This suggests independent dose–response associations operating over the lifetime of the participants. Approximately every additional daily hour of televiewing at age 2 years predicted an increased risk of later victimization and socially isolative behavior. […] Approximately every additional 1 h of early childhood television exposure at age 2 years also forecasted an increased risk of engaging in deception, theft, vandalism, and threatening and instilling fear on others, and encouraging social exclusion of others as an aggressive means of social domination.» (p. 3333-3334) «Our findings thus suggest a need for better parental awareness of how young children invest their time in what remains of their 24-h day.» (p. 3335)