A recent medical study revealed the impact of the long time children spend in front of smart device screens on their health and happiness.
And researchers from the University of South Australia announced that children who play sports, take music lessons or communicate with their friends following school are happier and healthier than those who stay glued to the screens of smart devices.
The study, whose results were published in the journal BMC Pediatrics, included more than 62,000 children aged between 4 and 9 years, according to the UPI news agency.
The study led by researcher Rosa Vergara concluded that children who played video games, watched television and used social media following school had poorer health compared to those who engaged in sports and art activities.
The study also showed, through opinion questionnaires distributed to children’s parents, that engaging in activities other than spending hours in front of smart devices contributed to raising levels of optimism, happiness and life satisfaction, as those were able to better control their emotions.