Bedtime Media Use Linked to Less Sleep in Children Who Struggle to Self-Regulate Behavior (VIDEO)

Arizona State University

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Leah Doane and Sierra Clifford, from the Arizona State University Department of Psychology, discuss how media use in the hour before bed was associated with less sleep in children who generally struggle to self-regulate their behavior. Media use in children who scored high on measures of effortful control was not related to less sleep.

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Robert Ewing, ASU

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