Longitudinal impacts of pubertal timing and weight status on adolescent Internet use: Analysis from a cohort study of Taiwanese youths.
AIM:To investigate the longitudinal impacts of pubertal timing and weight status on Internet use in adolescents. METHODS:Three waves of data on a longitudinal cohort of 7th grade students (N = 2430) were retrieved from the Taiwan Youth Project. Univariate and multivariate regression models were appl...
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| author | Meng-Che Tsai Carol Strong Wan-Ting Chen Chih-Ting Lee Chung-Ying Lin |
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| description | AIM:To investigate the longitudinal impacts of pubertal timing and weight status on Internet use in adolescents. METHODS:Three waves of data on a longitudinal cohort of 7th grade students (N = 2430) were retrieved from the Taiwan Youth Project. Univariate and multivariate regression models were applied using crude and adjusted odds ratios (OR) with 95% confidence intervals (CI) to examine the concomitant impacts of pubertal timing and weight status on adolescent Internet use. RESULTS:The dataset identified 210 (8.7%) students using the Internet for more than 20 hours/week, and 81 (3.3%) were viewing pornographic material online. Early maturing and thin-weight adolescents were at 35% and 46% increased risks of spending long hours on Internet use, respectively. While early puberty was associated with online pornography viewing among males (adjusted OR 1.84, 95% CI 1.04-3.28), early puberty was contrarily a protective factor against online gaming in females (adjusted OR 0.59, 95% CI 0.36-0.96). CONCLUSION:Early puberty was found to be positively related to adolescent Internet use. Appropriate health education and guidance regarding Internet use should be provided to those with different developing needs. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-8c15aca824b449b7b571f35605e2d6b02022-12-22T02:46:20ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032018-01-01135e019786010.1371/journal.pone.0197860Longitudinal impacts of pubertal timing and weight status on adolescent Internet use: Analysis from a cohort study of Taiwanese youths.Meng-Che TsaiCarol StrongWan-Ting ChenChih-Ting LeeChung-Ying LinAIM:To investigate the longitudinal impacts of pubertal timing and weight status on Internet use in adolescents. METHODS:Three waves of data on a longitudinal cohort of 7th grade students (N = 2430) were retrieved from the Taiwan Youth Project. Univariate and multivariate regression models were applied using crude and adjusted odds ratios (OR) with 95% confidence intervals (CI) to examine the concomitant impacts of pubertal timing and weight status on adolescent Internet use. RESULTS:The dataset identified 210 (8.7%) students using the Internet for more than 20 hours/week, and 81 (3.3%) were viewing pornographic material online. Early maturing and thin-weight adolescents were at 35% and 46% increased risks of spending long hours on Internet use, respectively. While early puberty was associated with online pornography viewing among males (adjusted OR 1.84, 95% CI 1.04-3.28), early puberty was contrarily a protective factor against online gaming in females (adjusted OR 0.59, 95% CI 0.36-0.96). CONCLUSION:Early puberty was found to be positively related to adolescent Internet use. Appropriate health education and guidance regarding Internet use should be provided to those with different developing needs.http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5967734?pdf=render |
| spellingShingle | Meng-Che Tsai Carol Strong Wan-Ting Chen Chih-Ting Lee Chung-Ying Lin Longitudinal impacts of pubertal timing and weight status on adolescent Internet use: Analysis from a cohort study of Taiwanese youths. PLoS ONE |
| title | Longitudinal impacts of pubertal timing and weight status on adolescent Internet use: Analysis from a cohort study of Taiwanese youths. |
| title_full | Longitudinal impacts of pubertal timing and weight status on adolescent Internet use: Analysis from a cohort study of Taiwanese youths. |
| title_fullStr | Longitudinal impacts of pubertal timing and weight status on adolescent Internet use: Analysis from a cohort study of Taiwanese youths. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Longitudinal impacts of pubertal timing and weight status on adolescent Internet use: Analysis from a cohort study of Taiwanese youths. |
| title_short | Longitudinal impacts of pubertal timing and weight status on adolescent Internet use: Analysis from a cohort study of Taiwanese youths. |
| title_sort | longitudinal impacts of pubertal timing and weight status on adolescent internet use analysis from a cohort study of taiwanese youths |
| url | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5967734?pdf=render |
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