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Excessive television viewing as a child can lead to a higher risk of smoking and gambling disorders in adulthood, a new study has showed.The researchers' follow-up data from the Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study (known as ...
For tobacco and gambling, these associations were independent of other potential influences on these outcomes such as sex, socioeconomic status, and measures of childhood self-control, said the study. �� Excessive TV Viewing in Childhood Can Later Lead to Smoking, Gambling: Study.
Researchers in New Zealand tracked 1,000 people from birth until they were 45 years old. Those who watched more TV in childhood were more likely to have addictions later on.
A team of researchers at University of Otago in New Zealand came up with some startling findings on viewing too much of television content.
Our grandparents always told us we would get square eyes if we watched too much television. Now, a University of Otago study — the Next Generation Study —