Correct Response: A. Research shows that modern technology and electronic media seem to be contributing to increasingly sedentary lifestyles and lower physical fitness among children and adolescents, resulting in negative impacts on personal, family, and community health. While mass media and advertising have affected consumer spending habits (B), this is unrelated to the decline in physical fitness among children and adolescents. The universal need to achieve self-actualization and security (C) is not related to the trend toward lower physical fitness and increased use of technology. While the combined power of peer pressure and youth-oriented media messages do foster conformity (D) and may influence children and adolescents to use electronic media, this pressure to conform is not directly related to the trend toward lower physical fitness.
