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Open AccessTrajectories of Loneliness During Adolescence Predict Subsequent Symptoms of Depression and Positive Wellbeing
There is a need to identify the outcomes of changes in loneliness during adolescence, and to consider this within a multidimensional framework of loneliness. This study considered the effects of different traj...
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Open AccessReciprocal Relationships between Trajectories of Loneliness and Screen Media Use during Adolescence
Adolescence is the peak period for loneliness. Now a ubiquitous part of the adolescent landscape, electronic screens may provide avenues for ameliorating feelings of loneliness. Conversely, they may act as ris...
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Loneliness Accounts for the Association Between Diagnosed Attention Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder and Symptoms of Depression Among Adolescents
The heightened levels of peer relationship difficulties associated with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) potentially predispose adolescents to feelings of loneliness and depressive symptoms. The...
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Open AccessReciprocal Relationships between Trajectories of Depressive Symptoms and Screen Media Use during Adolescence
Adolescents are constantly connected with each other and the digital landscape through a myriad of screen media devices. Unprecedented access to the wider world and hence a variety of activities, particularly ...
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Open AccessA latent growth curve model to estimate electronic screen use patterns amongst adolescents aged 10 to 17 years
High quality, longitudinal data describing young people’s screen use across a number of distinct forms of screen activity is missing from the literature. This study tracked multiple screen use activities (pass...
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Open AccessDevelopment of the Adolescent Preoccupation with Screens Scale
Although public health concerns have been raised regarding the detrimental health effects of increasing rates of electronic screen use among adolescents, such effects have been small. Instruments currently ava...
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Open AccessVirtually impossible: limiting Australian children and adolescents daily screen based media use
Paediatric recommendations to limit children’s and adolescents’ screen based media use (SBMU) to less than two hours per day appear to have gone unheeded. Given the associated adverse physical and mental healt...
