{"id":9015,"date":"2011-04-27T07:20:19","date_gmt":"2011-04-27T11:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=9015"},"modified":"2011-04-27T07:20:19","modified_gmt":"2011-04-27T11:20:19","slug":"high-computer-use-linked-to-smoking-drunkenness-non-use-of-seatbelts-cannabis-and-illicit-drug-use-and-unprotected-sex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/04\/27\/high-computer-use-linked-to-smoking-drunkenness-non-use-of-seatbelts-cannabis-and-illicit-drug-use-and-unprotected-sex\/","title":{"rendered":"High computer use linked to &#8220;smoking, drunkenness, non-use of seatbelts, cannabis and illicit drug use, and unprotected sex&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Talk about upsetting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2011\/04\/27\/online_teens_not_dorks\/\" target=\"_blank\">the stereotype<\/a> of basement dwelling, dateless nerds:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The revelations come in research conducted lately in Canada among 10 to 16-year-olds by epidemiology PhD candidate Valerie Carson.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This research is based on social cognitive theory, which suggests that seeing people engaged in a behaviour is a way of learning that behaviour,&#8221; explains Carson. &#8220;Since adolescents are exposed to considerable screen time &mdash; over 4.5 hours on average each day &mdash; they&#8217;re constantly seeing images of behaviours they can then potentially adopt.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Apparently the study found that high <em>computer<\/em> use was associated with approximately 50 per cent increased engagement with &#8220;smoking, drunkenness, non-use of seatbelts, cannabis and illicit drug use, and unprotected sex&#8221;. High <em>television<\/em> use was also associated with a modestly increased engagement in these activities.<\/p>\n<p>According to Ms Carson this is because TV is much more effectively controlled and censored in order to prevent impressionable youths seeing people puffing tabs or jazz cigarettes while indulging in unprotected sex etc. The driving without seatbelts thing seems a bit odd until one reflects that old episodes of the <em>The Professionals<\/em>, the <em>Rockford Files<\/em> etc are no doubt torrent favourites.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Talk about upsetting the stereotype of basement dwelling, dateless nerds: The revelations come in research conducted lately in Canada among 10 to 16-year-olds by epidemiology PhD candidate Valerie Carson. &#8220;This research is based on social cognitive theory, which suggests that seeing people engaged in a behaviour is a way of learning that behaviour,&#8221; explains Carson. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,66,28,15],"tags":[119,58,255,504],"class_list":["post-9015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-health-science","category-media","category-technology","tag-drugs","tag-internet","tag-sexuality","tag-teenagers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2lp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9016,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9015\/revisions\/9016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}