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Description: This cross-sectional study first and foremost investigates whether parents’ level of concern about children’s (age 12-17) video game play is an accurate predictor of issues related to healthy cognitive and psychological functioning. As a second objective, the study looks for predictors of issues related to healthy cognitive and psychological functioning, within data from the children’s survey/test alone. Finally, the study is a broad exploration of parental concerns, looking for predictors of general concerns that video games are a problem within the parent’s questionnaire, as well as describing children’s own experiences of the broader problem of gaming-time and screentime. The issues tested were based on claims in the popular media discourse concerning effects of screen use on teenagers. The study is run in collaboration with the Danish news station TV2 news, so some findings will be publicised in an early version as part of their coverage of the experimental process, which makes preregistration essential. All analyses and results to be submitted to peer review later.