Associations between different types of sedentary behavior and mental health: Gender-stratified analyses among 97,171 South Korean adolescents
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Abstract
Background Sedentary behavior (SB) is known to be detrimental to the overall health of adolescents. However, it is less understood if mental health outcomes differ by different types of SB. The objective of this study was to examine the association between different types of SB and mental health outcomes among South Korean adolescents. Methods Self-reported, nation-wide, cross-sectional data from 2018 to 2019 Korea Web-based Youth Risk Behavior Surveys (N = 122,923) were used. Different types of SB were categorized into quartiles. Mental health outcomes were dichotomized (yes/no). Multivariate logistic regressions were performed after adjusting for relevant covariates. Results Of 97,171 (age:12–18yrs; girls:49.4%) eligible adolescents, the overall prevalence of sadness/hopelessness, suicidal thoughts, and suicide plan/attempt were 26.8%, 12.6%, and 4·9%, respectively. Overall, prolonged total and non-academic SB (4th quartile) were associated with sadness/hopelessness and suicidal thoughts for both genders and suicidal plan/attempt for girls only. Academic SB was not associated with any of the mental health outcomes. Prolonged Internet use (4th quartile) was also associated with sadness/hopelessness (OR:1.26, 95%CI:1.19–1.34), suicidal thoughts (OR:1.42, 95%CI:1.32–1.53), and suicidal plan/attempt (OR:1.26, 95%CI:1.13–1.40) among girls, but only with suicidal thoughts (OR:1.24, 95%CI:1.13–1.36) among boys. In contrast, the 2nd and 3rd quartiles of Internet use were inversely associated with sadness/hopelessness (OR:0.91, 95%CI:0.85–0.97, 3rd quartile) and suicidal plan/attempt (OR:0.69, 95%CI:0.59–0.80, 3rd quartile) among boys. Conclusions Prolonged total and non-academic SB are detrimental to mental health outcomes among Korean adolescents. More consistent negative associations were found between Internet use and mental health outcomes among girls.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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