{"id":260794,"date":"2026-01-01T01:05:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T01:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/260794\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T01:05:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T01:05:23","slug":"singapore-study-links-heavy-infant-screen-time-to-teen-anxiety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/260794\/","title":{"rendered":"Singapore Study Links Heavy Infant Screen Time to Teen Anxiety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sgpc.gov.sg\/detail?url=\/media_releases\/astar\/press_release\/P-20251230-2&amp;page=\/detail&amp;HomePage=home\" title=\"study\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">study<\/a> by a Singapore government agency has found that children exposed to high levels of screen time before age two showed brain development changes linked to slower decision-making and higher anxiety in adolescence, adding to concerns about early digital exposure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The study was conducted by a team within the country\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/0764707D:SP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Agency for Science, Technology and Research<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/NUSSP:Corp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">National University of Singapore<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/ebiom\/article\/PIIS2352-3964(25)00543-2\/fulltext\" title=\"published\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">published<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/0724019D:LN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">The Lancet<\/a>\u2019s eBioMedicine open access journal. It tracked 168 children for more than a decade, and conducted brain scans on them at three time points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A study by a Singapore government agency has found that children exposed to high levels of screen time&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260795,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[276],"tags":[289,1128,2597,18,3428,135,19,17,167,502,134395,133,1999,12275,1114,82,121],"class_list":{"0":"post-260794","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-artificial-intelligence","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-education","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-government","13":"tag-health","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-mental-health","17":"tag-mentalhealth","18":"tag-national-university-of-singa","19":"tag-science","20":"tag-singapore","21":"tag-smartphone","22":"tag-social-media","23":"tag-technology","24":"tag-youtube"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115817160585803405","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}