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'Kids hooked on TV grow into anti-socials'
Tuesday February 19, 2013 12:03:36 AM,
IANS
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Wellington: Children
and adolescents glued to TV sets tend to exhibit anti-social and
criminal behaviour as adults, according to a research from New
Zealand.
The study by the University of Otago followed a group of around
1,000 children born in 1972-73. Every two years between the ages
of five and 15, they were asked how much TV they watched.
Those who watched more TV were more likely to have a criminal
conviction and were also more likely to have anti-social
personality traits in adulthood, the US journal Paediatrics
reports.
Study co-author Bob Hancox, associate professor of preventive and
social medicine at Otago, says he and colleagues found 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, according to an Otago statement.
The study also found that watching more TV in childhood was
associated, in adulthood, with aggressive personality traits, an
increased tendency to experience negative emotions, and an
increased risk of anti-social personality disorder; a psychiatric
disorder characterised by persistent patterns of aggressive and
antisocial behaviour.
Study co-author Lindsay Robertson, says it is not that children
who were already anti-social watched more TV. "Rather, children
who watched a lot of television were likely to go on to manifest
anti-social behaviour and personality traits."
"While we're not saying that television causes all anti-social
behaviour, our findings do suggest that reducing TV viewing could
go some way towards reducing rates of anti-social behaviour in
society," concludes Hancox.
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