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Association of after school sedentary behaviour in adolescence with mental wellbeing in adulthood
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posted on 2016-03-04, 09:46 authored by Mark Hamer, Thomas E. Yates, Lauren SherarLauren Sherar, Stacy ClemesStacy Clemes, Aparna ShankarSedentary behaviour is associated with poorer mental health in adolescence but no studies have followed participants into mid-life. We investigated the association between after-school sedentary behaviours (screen time and homework) in adolescence with mental wellbeing in adulthood when participants were aged 42.Participants (n=2038, 59.2% female) were drawn from The 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70). At age 16 respondents were asked separate questions about how long they spent in three types of screen based activities (TV, video films, computer games) and homework 'after school yesterday'. Mental well-being and psychological distress were assessed at the age 42 sweep in 2012 using the Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (WEMWBS) and Malaise Inventory, respectively.After adjustment for all covariates, participants reporting more than 3hrs of after school screen time as an adolescent had -1.74 (95% CI, -2.65, -0.83) points on the WEMWBS compared with adults reporting less than 1 hr screen time as an adolescent. Participants that reported high screen time both at age 16 (≥3hrs/d) and age 42 (≥3hrs/d TV viewing) demonstrated even lower scores (-2.91; -4.12, -1.69). Homework was unrelated to wellbeing after adjustment for covariates. The longitudinal association between adolescent screen time and adult psychological distress was attenuated to the null after adjustment for covariates.Screen time in adolescence was inversely associated with mental wellbeing in adulthood.
Funding
This work was supported by National Institute for Health Research Programme grant, the National Institute for Health Research LeicesterLoughborough Diet, Lifestyle and Physical Activity Biomedical Research Unit.
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- Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
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Preventive medicineCitation
HAMER, M. ... et al., 2016. Association of after school sedentary behaviour in adolescence with mental wellbeing in adulthood. Preventive medicine, 87 (June 2016), pp. 6–10.Publisher
© Elsevier Inc.Version
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Acceptance date
2016-02-06Publication date
2016Notes
This paper was accepted for publication in the journal Preventive medicine and the definitive published version is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2016.02.021ISSN
0091-7435eISSN
1096-0260Publisher version
Language
- en