Table 1.
Sociodemographic characteristics of the participants according to the duration of daily Instagram use.
| Variables | Total sample (n=585) | Duration of daily Instagram use | P value | |||||
|
|
|
<1 hour (n=234) | 1-3 hours (n=303) | >3 hours (n=48) |
|
|||
| Age (years), mean (SD) | 26.8 (5.9) | 27.1 (5.9) | 26.8 (5.9) | 25.1 (5.2) | .99 | |||
| Gender (female), n (%) | 505 (86.3) | 191 (81.6) | 269 (88.8) | 45 (93.8) | .02 | |||
| Currently employed (yes), n (%) | 334 (57.1) | 150 (64.1) | 160 (52.8) | 24 (50.0) | .02 | |||
| Children (yes), n (%) | 55 (9.4) | 20 (8.5) | 29 (9.6) | 6 (12.5) | .69 | |||
| Educational level, n (%) | .01 | |||||||
|
|
High school/VTa | 74 (12.6) | 31 (13.2) | 30 (9.9) | 13 (27.1) |
|
||
|
|
Middle school | 90 (15.4) | 33 (14.1) | 48 (15.8) | 9 (18.8) |
|
||
|
|
College degree | 421 (72.0) | 170 (72.6) | 225 (74.3) | 26 (54.2) |
|
||
| Marital status, n (%) | .71 | |||||||
| Single | 262 (44.8) | 107 (45.7) | 136 (44.9) | 19 (39.6) |
|
|||
|
|
In a relationship | 249 (42.6) | 98 (41.9) | 127 (41.9) | 24 (50.0) |
|
||
|
|
Married | 67 (11.5) | 28 (12.0) | 35 (11.6) | 4 (8.3) |
|
||
|
|
Divorced | 7 (1.2) | 1 (0.4) | 5 (1.7) | 1 (2.1) |
|
||
| Socioeconomic status, n (%) | .16 | |||||||
|
|
Low | 36 (6.2) | 9 (3.8) | 20 (6.6) | 7 (14.6) |
|
||
|
|
Medium | 352 (60.2) | 137 (58.5) | 186 (61.4) | 29 (60.4) |
|
||
|
|
Medium-high | 187 (32.0) | 84 (35.9) | 92 (30.4) | 11 (22.9) |
|
||
|
|
High | 10 (1.7) | 4 (1.7) | 5 (1.7) | 1 (2.1) |
|
||
aVT: vocational training.