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Research into teenagers' shifted body clocks has been going on since well before smartphones and even laptops, if I recall.

by n4r9 4y ago

kitsunesoba 4y ago
Anecdotally, as sometime who was a teenager in the pre-smartphone era I stayed up late plenty without any personal portable screens. I’d just be staying up to watch TV or read a book instead.
at-fates-hands 4y ago
You are correct. I think research started into the effects of TV screens on teenagers sleeping patterns. Research has indicated that extensive television viewing tends to be associated with sleep problems among children, adolescents, and adults.1-6 However, few studies of risk for sleep problems have assessed television viewing.1 Only 2 studies have investigated the sequencing of the association between television viewing and the development of sleep problems during childhood or early adolescence.2,5 The findings of both studies suggested that television viewing was associated with increased risk for sleep problems during the next 9 to 12 months. However, no prospective longitudinal study has investigated the long-term association of television viewing with the development of sleep problems from early adolescence through early adulthood. Thus, little is known about the nature and direction of the association between television viewing and sleep problems during adolescence and early adulthood. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/485728 https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/...
steve_adams_86 4y ago
I read about it several times in Discover magazine as an early tween/teen. I had a subscription, haha. So, it was a recurring topic 20+ years ago in a fairly popular magazine. This was well before kids commonly had phones, and while I owned a palm pilot, it didn’t keep me up at night and it was… atypical at best for kids to have or perhaps even want them, haha. Around the time I turned 18 most kids my age had cell (not smart) phones and computers had become common in households, but I don’t recall them being a major sleep disturber yet. I would stay up on mine learning to program and playing StarCraft around 20 years ago, but again, I don’t think this was nearly as typical as kids watching tv in their rooms back then, let alone using phones or tablets today.

Research into teenagers' shifted body clocks has been going on since well before smartphones and even laptops, if I recall.

by n4r9 4y ago

Research into teenagers' shifted body clocks has been going on since well before smartphones and even laptops, if I recall.

kitsunesoba 4y ago

Anecdotally, as sometime who was a teenager in the pre-smartphone era I stayed up late plenty without any personal portable screens. I’d just be staying up to watch TV or read a book instead.

at-fates-hands 4y ago

You are correct. I think research started into the effects of TV screens on teenagers sleeping patterns. Research has indicated that extensive television viewing tends to be associated with sleep problems among children, adolescents, and adults.1-6 However, few studies of risk for sleep problems have assessed television viewing.1 Only 2 studies have investigated the sequencing of the association between television viewing and the development of sleep problems during childhood or early adolescence.2,5 The findings of both studies suggested that television viewing was associated with increased risk for sleep problems during the next 9 to 12 months. However, no prospective longitudinal study has investigated the long-term association of television viewing with the development of sleep problems from early adolescence through early adulthood. Thus, little is known about the nature and direction of the association between television viewing and sleep problems during adolescence and early adulthood. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/485728 https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/...

steve_adams_86 4y ago

I read about it several times in Discover magazine as an early tween/teen. I had a subscription, haha. So, it was a recurring topic 20+ years ago in a fairly popular magazine. This was well before kids commonly had phones, and while I owned a palm pilot, it didn’t keep me up at night and it was… atypical at best for kids to have or perhaps even want them, haha. Around the time I turned 18 most kids my age had cell (not smart) phones and computers had become common in households, but I don’t recall them being a major sleep disturber yet. I would stay up on mine learning to program and playing StarCraft around 20 years ago, but again, I don’t think this was nearly as typical as kids watching tv in their rooms back then, let alone using phones or tablets today.