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Title: | Longitudinal impacts of pubertal timing and weight status on adolescent internet use : analysis from a cohort study of Taiwanese youths | Authors: | Tsai, MC Strong, C Chen, WT Lee, CT Lin, CY |
Issue Date: | 2018 | Source: | PLoS one, 24 May 2018, v. 13, no. 5, e0197860, p. 1-10 | Abstract: | 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. |
Publisher: | Public Library of Science | Journal: | PLoS one | EISSN: | 1932-6203 | DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0197860 | Rights: | © 2018 Tsai et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. The following publication Tsai, M. -., Strong, C., Chen, W. -., Lee, C. -., & Lin, C. -. (2018). Longitudinal impacts of pubertal timing and weight status on adolescent internet use: Analysis from a cohort study of taiwanese youths. PLoS ONE, 13(5), e0197860, 1-10 is available at https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0197860 |
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