The children who listen to more two hours of television per day since the age of two years and half would be more to risk to have problems of behavior that the other, reveal a survey américaine1. Besides, a child who has a television in his/her/its room is susceptible to have problems of sleep more, indicate the results.
To the total, 2 707 families, listed at the time of a national investigation led from 1996 to 1998, participated in the survey. The parents valued the behavior and the habits of monitoring of their children toward the age of two years and half, then to five years and half.
Among the participants, distribute through the United States, close to 20% of the children listened to more two hours of television as much per day to 30 months that to more of five years. According to the assessment of the parents, these children had unrest of comportement2 more to five years and half, as problems of sleep, attention and aggressiveness, that the other.
On the other hand, their faculties sociales3. affirmation and mastery of oneself for example, were similar to those of the children that spent less time owing the small screen.
Contrary to the hypothesis of the researchers, the same results have been observed no matter the income of the parents and their implication by their children.
A reversible behavior
More than 15% of the children of 30 months to 33 months watched more two hours of television per day, but they reduced the time passed before the small screen thereafter. According to the results, to five years and half, they didn’t have problems of behavior or less good social faculties that the other.
According to the results, the participants aged of more than five years that had a television in their room (41%) had more of sleep problems and less emotional reactions that the other children. To have a television in their room incites the children more to look at it at the hour of the bedtime, what interferes with the sleep, sustain the authors.
The content of the broadcasts listened has not been valued, nor the context in which the children listened to the television.
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