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Publication details [#45874]

Vandebosch, Heidi and Katrien Van Cleemput. 2007. Television viewing and obesity among pre-school children: The role of parents. Communications 32 (4) : 417–446.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bodily posture | mediation | pre-school age | sex | television

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/COMM/html

Annotation

This paper explores the impact of parental mediation and modeling on television viewing behaviour and obesity among pre-school children. Findings suggests that it can be fruitful for further research to take into account the children's sex and a broad set television viewing variables.