Continued media exposure to stressful events can have a significant impact on a child's psychological well-being. With the COVID-19 pandemic dominating news cycles, psychologist Jonathan Comer offers tips on how to manage ...
Mar 17, 2020
0
0
During the 2016 Zika outbreak, news exposure appears to have had a far bigger impact than local disease risk on the number of times people visited Zika-related Wikipedia pages in the U.S. Michele Tizzoni and colleagues at ...
Mar 12, 2020
0
81
African-American moms share many traits with helicopter parents, specifically when it comes to being overprotective and hypervigilant about their children's lives. But their goal is not only to get them into college. It's ...
Apr 29, 2019
0
0
Young children in six low- and middle-income countries prefer junk food and sugar sweetened beverages over traditional and home cooked meals, according to a new study from the University of Maryland School of Public Health.
Mar 6, 2018
0
1
The age at which a boy is first exposed to pornography is significantly associated with certain sexist attitudes later in life, but not necessarily in the way people might think, according to research presented at the 125th ...
Aug 3, 2017
3
119
Overexposure to media—television, Facebook, smartphones—may be disrupting teen sleep patterns. And according to researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham who are launching a study into teen sleep and media ...
Oct 3, 2016
0
2
(HealthDay)—For some families, moments where parents spend time playing, reading or conversing with kids may be a thing of the past, new research suggests.
Jun 10, 2016
0
51
For the first time experts have been able to eliminate external factors and specifically pinpoint television as having a direct link with female body ideals.
Feb 22, 2016
0
19
Researchers from the University of Surrey and Lund University (Sweden) investigated how frequent, long-distance travel is represented in mass and social media. They found that the images portrayed do not take into account ...
Aug 4, 2015
0
22
A variety of socio-demographic, personal, and environmental factors have been linked to negative alcohol-use consequences during adolescence and young adulthood. Media exposure to alcohol is one of these factors. A recent ...
Feb 20, 2015
0
5
