The relationship of Long-term Television Watching to Overweight and Anxiety Problems on Primary Students

Background: Television has become an important part of the children's world. They spend much of their time on watching television. Television has some positive and negative effects on children's health.Materials and Methods: This research as a correlation study reviews the relationship between long-term TV watching to overweight and anxiety problems among primary students. Our subjects were ۵۰ (boy) students in grades of fourth and fifth at a primary. The students completed Spielberger State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) and a researcher-made questionnaire.Results: The results showed that there was a significant relationship between duration of watching TV and overweighting. Also there was a significant relationship between daily TV watching duration and anxiety. There was no significant relationship between daily time spent on TV watching and Trait-anxiety. There was also a significant relationship between daily hours of watching TV and State- anxiety.Conclusion: The study showed a direct correlation between time spent on TV watching and overweighting and anxiety related problems with primary students. Reducing times spent on TV could help prevent this health related conditions.

کلیدواژه ها:

Anxiety ، Children ، Overweight ، Primary Students ، Watching Television