Table 1.
Relationship between family circumstance and minutes per day engaged in television viewing
| Family circumstance | young girls | young boys | older girls | older boys | ||||||||||||
| variable | n | mean | β | p-value | n | mean | β | p-value | n | mean | β | p-value | n | mean | β | p-value |
| Parents in the home | 0.14 | 0.54 | 0.002 | 0.13 | ||||||||||||
| Onea | 57 | 158.4 | -- | 52 | 151.6 | -- | 148 | 182.9 | -- | 113 | 176.5 | -- | ||||
| Two | 332 | 145.2 | -12.2 | 323 | 149.0 | -4.3 | 726 | 164.4 | -21.7 | 623 | 170.4 | -15.6 | ||||
| Respondent's marital status | 0.01b | 0.68b | 0.001 b | 0.15b | ||||||||||||
| Married/defactoa | 331 | 143.9 | -- | 321 | 148.2 | -- | 715 | 163.6 | -- | 613 | 170.0 | -- | ||||
| Separated/divorced | 33 | 150.3 | 8.6 | 37 | 156.1 | 7.2 | 123 | 182.7 | 22.9 | 91 | 170.1 | 10.5 | ||||
| Widowed/never married | 23 | 190.1 | 47.5 | 15 | 155.7 | 11.1 | 28 | 189.7 | 28.2 | 25 | 203.2 | 37.1 | ||||
| Siblings | 0.74 | 0.79 | 0.06 | 0.93 | ||||||||||||
| Nonea | 40 | 142.8 | -- | 41 | 154.1 | -- | 91 | 179.2 | -- | 75 | 164.4 | -- | ||||
| One or more | 347 | 147.7 | 3.6 | 333 | 149.1 | -2.2 | 782 | 166.1 | -14.8 | 657 | 172.0 | 1.1 | ||||
| Maternal education | 0.002 b (0.001) | <0.001 b (<0.001) | <0.001 b (<0.001) | <0.001 b (<0.001) | ||||||||||||
| Not completed secondarya | 81 | 159.5 | -- | 85 | 178.2 | -- | 242 | 189.0 | -- | 184 | 193.4 | -- | ||||
| Completed secondary | 151 | 159.4 | -2.4 | 142 | 155.7 | -24.6 | 306 | 173.5 | -21.3 | 286 | 175.8 | -19.0 | ||||
| Tertiary | 148 | 124.7 | -34.8 | 142 | 125.7 | -51.1 | 293 | 140.9 | -53.1 | 243 | 148.8 | -46.4 | ||||
| Paternal education | 0.002 b (0.001) | <0.001 b (<0.001) | <0.001 b (<0.001) | 0.02 b (0.04) | ||||||||||||
| Not completed secondarya | 77 | 173.3 | -- | 76 | 173.2 | -- | 166 | 177.1 | -- | 137 | 175.5 | -- | ||||
| Completed secondary | 144 | 146.4 | -31.3 | 130 | 150.5 | -25.7 | 327 | 173.1 | -15.4 | 279 | 178.1 | 3.1 | ||||
| Tertiary | 111 | 125.1 | -51.2 | 114 | 127.8 | -46.4 | 238 | 145.6 | -37.8 | 206 | 156.1 | -19.7 | ||||
| Maternal employment | 0.02 b (0.55) | 0.06 b (0.03) | 0.07 b (0.09) | 0.04 b (0.02) | ||||||||||||
| Full-time | 72 | 161.9 | 2.1 | 67 | 150.6 | -14.8 | 253 | 168.6 | -18.7 | 223 | 165.5 | -20.3 | ||||
| Part-time | 148 | 130.9 | -28.6 | 132 | 135.2 | -26.5 | 363 | 159.2 | -23.8 | 279 | 173.2 | -9.6 | ||||
| Not in paid employmenta | 153 | 156.2 | -- | 158 | 162.1 | -- | 205 | 180.0 | -- | 200 | 175.5 | -- | ||||
| Paternal employment | 0.05 b (0.03) | 0.53 b (0.91) | 0.23 b (0.17) | 0.63 b (0.34) | ||||||||||||
| Full-time | 283 | 141.8 | -72.9 | 281 | 148.1 | -8.0 | 625 | 163.7 | -17.3 | 534 | 170.1 | -13.0 | ||||
| Part-time | 15 | 176.4 | -31.8 | 17 | 144.2 | -25.4 | 40 | 184.8 | 4.5 | 32 | 179.3 | -7.2 | ||||
| Not in paid employmenta | 16 | 221.7 | -- | 12 | 152.1 | -- | 35 | 175.4 | -- | 32 | 184.6 | -- | ||||
| Maternal work hours (/day) | 253 | -0.36 | 0.78 | 243 | -1.86 | 0.17 | 398 | -2.19 | 0.14 | 331 | -0.50 | 0.74 | ||||
| Paternal work hours (/day) | 212 | -1.64 | 0.46 | 204 | 3.15 | 0.04 | 353 | -6.32 | 0.002 | 303 | -0.54 | 0.75 | ||||
a referent category; b Wald test within regression analysis, ( ) p-value for linear trend