Table II.

Spearman rank correlations assessing cross sectional and longitudinal associations between parents' TV-viewing behaviors and parenting practices and girls' TV viewing

	Correlations with girls' TV viewing
	Mothers' TV viewing	Fathers' TV viewing	Parents' use of TV as recreation	Family co-viewing	Restricting girls' access to TV
Cross-sectional associations
Parenting and girls' TV viewing (age 9)	.55***	.37***	.35***	.35***	-
Parenting and girls' TV viewing (age 11)	.47***	.39***	.34***	.22**	.18**
Longitudinal associations
Parenting (age 9) and girls' TV viewing (age 11)†	.23**	.06	.20**	.13	-
Change in parenting and girls' TV viewing between age 9 and 11	-.08	.08	.04	.18*	-

All analyses partial out the effects of family income and parent education. Parent restriction was assessed only when the girls were age 11.

^*P < .05

^**P < .01

^***P < .001.

^†Correlations between parenting variables at age 9 and girls' TV viewing at age 11 controlled for the parent variable at age 11.