BACKGROUND: Both eating disorders and excessive internet use represent significant health issues for contemporary adolescents. Yet, the link between them has seldom been investigated. We aim to study this association through their common underlying psychological factors: internalising problems and externalising problems. METHODS: A representative sample of 7,083 adolescents (Mage = 13.48 years; SDage = 1.32; 50.3% girls) from Slovakia was obtained from the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) project in 2018. Study variables included the Excessive Internet Use Scale (EIU) and the Strength and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ). Eating disorders symptoms (EDS) were assessed by SCOFF and selected items from the Eating Disorder Screen for Primary Care (ESP). Data were analysed separately for boys and girls with Structural Equation Modelling. RESULTS: There was a partial correlation between EDS and EIU (r = 0.36 for boys and r = 0.29 for girls) after controlling for the internalising and externalising of problems. Internalising and externalising problems were positively associated with EDS, while EIU was only associated with externalising problems. The results were comparable for both genders. CONCLUSION: The study provides evidence that, during adolescence, EDS and EIU are related and have a tendency to occur together. Also, they are related even when controlled for their shared underlying psychological factors, namely the emotional and attentional/behavioural difficulties.

The study found that, in adolescents, eating disorders symptoms are associated with excessive internet use even when controlled for their shared psychological factors. Self-control issues were associated with both the eating disorder symptoms and excessive internet use, while emotional issues were only associated with the eating disorder symptoms. The strength of the relationship was similar for boys and girls, even though the prevalence of eating disorders symptoms was double in girls.

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• Adolescents, Eating disorders symptoms, Excessive internet use, Externalising problems, Internalising problems,
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OBJECTIVE: To analyze parental attitudes and socio-emotional development of children conceived by ICSI. DESIGN: Open cross-sectional study. SETTING: Department of Clinical Psychology, Thomayer University Hospital, Prague and Department of Paediatrics, Charles University, 2nd Medical School, University Hospital-Motol, Prague. METHODS: 133 children (75 boys, 58 girls) conceived by ICSI, age ranged from 11 months to 8.5 years were psychologically assessed between the years 2004-2006. Children's behavior was evaluated by 4 rating scales during the assessment. Parents answered questionnaires concerning children's temperament, behavioral problems (TBC) and the parental attitudes questionnaire (PARQ). RESULTS: Children's behavior during the psychological assessment was rated mostly as very good or good, although the children were often less communicative. Most of the children have mixed or easy temperament, a difficult type of temperament didn't report any of the parents. Most of the parents didn't describe significant behavioral problems in their children, in particular there were very few externalizing difficulties (opposition, aggression), but in 29.5% of the sample, there were found some social or emotional difficulties. We found surprisingly high frequency of milder forms of autism spectrum disorders and another social problems (social and other anxiety disorders) in the sample, other psychopathology was rare. Parental attitudes had a tendency to grater involvement with the child and high affection in relation with him. CONCLUSION: Socio-emotional development of ICSI children is good, although some have specific social difficulties, externalising problems were present only exceptionally. Parental attitudes toward ICSI children are positive, there is slight tendency to higher emotional involvement with the child.

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• chování dětí * MeSH
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