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Tuesday, February 19, 2013
A new report published in the US journal Pediatrics says children and adolescents who watch a lot of television are more likely to manifest antisocial behavior when they become adults.
A university in New Zealand studied a group 1000 children and every two years asked how much television the children watched. A co-author of the study said in a release Monday that the risk of having a criminal conviction by early adulthood increased by about 30 percent with every hour that children spent watching TV on an average weeknight.
The study also found a link between the amount of television watched in childhood and aggressive personality traits in adulthood. Researchers say their findings suggest reducing TV viewing could reduce anti-social behavior in our society.
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Keywords: Pediatrics television children aggressive antisocial behavior University of Otago New Zealand research
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