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There's little doubt that Americans are very attached to their TV screens. The government has even declared TV-watching to be one of the most common leisure activities.

And now, thanks to on-demand streaming, there's little to stop us from indulging in that TV habit.

But based on a study by Jessica Sloan Kruger, binge-watchers may pay a price for wallowing in their favorite show. Kruger is a doctoral student in the Department of Public Health at the University of Toronto.

Kruger and her co-authors surveyed 406 adults they recruited online, and found a correlation¹ between binge-watching and higher rates of stress, anxiety, and depression.

"We can say they're correlated, but we don't know the direction yet. More studies need to be done," Kruger says. "Currently we know that there's a relationship, but we don't know if people are depressed² and then watch TV, or watch TV and then are depressed."

Jessica Sloan Kruger tells us more about the study in our conversation above.

1 correlation   

n.相互关系，相关，关连

参考例句：

• The second group of measurements had a high correlation with the first.第二组测量数据与第一组高度相关。
• A high correlation exists in America between education and economic position.教育和经济地位在美国有极密切的关系。

2 depressed   

adj.沮丧的，抑郁的，不景气的，萧条的

参考例句：

• When he was depressed,he felt utterly divorced from reality.他心情沮丧时就感到完全脱离了现实。
• His mother was depressed by the sad news.这个坏消息使他的母亲意志消沉。