Study Links TV and Depression

[Karl Frederick]

STUDY LINKS TV AND DEPRESSION
By Karen Kaplan
Los Angeles Times
February 3, 2009

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You may be depressed by the amount of time your teenage couch potato spends
in front of the TV, but according to a new study, all that television could
increase his or her risk of becoming depressed as an adult.

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and Harvard Medical School
looked at the media habits of 4,142 healthy adolescents and calculated that
each additional hour of TV watched per day boosted the odds of becoming
depressed by 8%.

Other forms of media, such as playing computer games and watching videos,
didn't affect the risk of depression, according to the study published today
in the Archives of General Psychology.