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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2023 Mar 22;62(9):1051–1063. doi: 10.1016/j.jaac.2023.02.014

Table 1.

Baseline Demographics for the identified Screen Media Activity (SMA) patterns in the Adolescent Brain and Cognitive Development (ABCD)

Higher-frequency SMA patterna Lower-frequency SMA patterna Nb t/χ2 p effect sizec
Demographics subgroup 1
N=3151
(26.67%)
subgroup 2
N=8664
(73.33%)
Age (months) 119.16 ± 7.47 118.92 ± 7.5 11815 −1.55 0.12 −0.03
Gender 11815 305.09 <0.001 0.16
 girls 1089 (34.56%) 4567 (52.71%)
 boys 2062 (65.44%) 4097 (47.29%)
Handedness 11815 6.99 0.03 0.02
 Right 2452 (77.82%) 6929 (79.97%)
 Left 236 (7.49%) 609 (7.03%)
 Mixed 463 (14.69%) 1126 (13.00%)
Relationship in family 11815 20.39 <0.001 0.04
 single 2196 (69.69%) 5659 (65.32%)
 sibling 424 (13.46%) 1376 (15.88%)
 twin/triplet 531 (16.85%) 1629 (18.80%)
Youth’s Education Leveld 11814 0.93 0.35 0.02
Race 11694 605.03 <0.001 0.23
 White 1601 (51.30%) 5886 (68.66%)
 Black 909 (29.13%) 953 (11.12%)
 Asian 33 (1.06%) 240 (2.80%)
 Mixed/other 578 (18.52%) 1494 (17.43%)
Ethnicity 11815 5.29 0.02 −0.02
 Hispanic 681 (21.61%) 1706 (19.69%)
 Non-Hispanic 2470 (78.39%) 6958 (80.31%)
Parents’ Marital Status 11723 371.69 <0.001 −0.18
 Single 1223 (39.31%) 1857 (21.56%)
 Married or living with partner 1888 (60.69%) 6755 (78.44%)
Parents’ Highest Education 11801 375.35 <0.001 −0.18
 high school or less 1268 (40.36%) 1940 (22.40%)
 college education 1874 (59.64%) 6719 (77.60%)
Parents’ Employment Status 10871 429.11 <0.001 0.20
 Married, 2 in LFe 1077 (37.80%) 4272 (53.25%)
 Married, 1 in LFe 476 (16.71%) 1739 (21.68%)
 Married, 0 in LFe 81 (2.84%) 170 (2.12%)
 Single, in LFe 794 (27.87%) 1277 (15.92%)
 Single, Not in LFe 421 (14.78%) 564 (7.03%)
Family Sized 11542 5.06 <0.001 0.11
Household Structure 11734 43.06 <0.001 0.06
 Single household 2666 (85.59%) 7750 (89.92%)
 Another household 449 (14.41%) 869 (10.08%)
Country of Birth 11630 0.26 0.61 −0.004
 Other 50 (1.61%) 126 (1.48%)
 USA 3057 (98.39%) 8397 (98.52%)
Family Incomed 10803 25.25 <0.001 0.55
a

mean(SD) for continuous variables, No. (Percentage) for categorical variables.

b

the number of individuals with available data, may not be equal to 11817 due to missing data. The denominator of percentages for categories is their corresponding N.

c

Hedges’ g for continuous variables (two sample t-test), Cramer’s V or Cramer’s phi for categorical variables (chi-square test).

d

These variables were rank-coded to ordinal continuous variables, see details in Supplement 2, available online.

e

LF: labor force.