
PLOS Global Public Health, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 5(4), С. e0004262 - e0004262
Опубликована: Апрель 2, 2025
Recently the Swedish Public Health Agency published recommendations of a maximum two-to-three hours daily leisure screen time for adolescents aged 13–18, partly to promote better sleep (2024-Sep-02). Biologically and socially, adolescence is characterized by belated times, depressive effects can arise through displacements. Theorized links between time, sleep, depression, merited examination four mediators determine their relative importance which them mediate future depression. Hypotheses were preregistered. Three-wave psychometric health data collected from healthy students ( N = 4810; 51% Boys; ages 12–16; 55 schools; n 20 26 Stockholm municipalities). Multiple imputation bias-corrected missing data. Gender-wise Structural Equation Modelling tested facets as competing (quality, duration, chronotype, social jetlag). The primary model result included three first achieve acceptable fit indices (RMSEA 0.02; SRMR 0.03; CFI 0.95; TLI 0.94). Screen deteriorated within months effect sizes varied Beta weights ranged: 0.14–0.30) but less genders. Among boys, at baseline had direct adverse on depression after twelve p <0.038). girls, was mediated quality, chronotype (57, 38, 45% mediation). Social jetlag remained non-significant. This study supports modernized ‘screen-sleep-displacement theory’. It empirically demonstrates that screen-sleep displacements impact several aspects simultaneously. Displacements led elevated symptoms among girls not boys. Boys may be more prone externalizing due loss. Results could mirror potentially beneficial public national recommendations.
Язык: Английский