caa a22 4500 475739280 CHVBK 20180406123455.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20000601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1023/A:1005102523848 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1023/A:1005102523848 Van den Bulck Jan Department of Communication, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, E. Van Evenstraat 2 A, 3000, Leuven, Belgium aut Is Television Bad for Your Health? Behavior and Body Image of the Adolescent "Couch Potato” [Elektronische Daten] [Jan Van den Bulck] This article examines the potential health effects of television. A survey of 1035 Flemish 17- and 18-year-olds shows that eating snacks and drinking regularly accompany viewing. Television was also shown to influence sleeping and family meals. Heavy viewers did not, however, appear to be more passive than lighter viewers. Their indulgence in sports did not differ, but content-specific relationships with going out appear to exist. In this group no link between viewing and obesity was found, but viewing was significantly related to various aspects of people's self assessments regarding their weight, their ideal weight and their looks. Particular attention was given to those television programs that portray "idealized bodies.” Generally, a distinction was made between men and women because many body-, weight-, and health-related factors may be culture and gender specific. Plenum Publishing Corporation, 2000 Journal of Youth and Adolescence Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 29/3(2000-06-01), 273-288 0047-2891 29:3<273 2000 29 10964 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005102523848 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005102523848 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Van den Bulck Jan Department of Communication, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, E. Van Evenstraat 2 A, 3000, Leuven, Belgium aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Youth and Adolescence Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 29/3(2000-06-01), 273-288 0047-2891 29:3<273 2000 29 10964 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer