Table 2.
Possible factors influencing recall of mobile telephone use
Predictors | Call number | Call duration | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
N | ρ* | P value‡ | ρ* | P value ‡ | |
Overall | 59 | 0.3 | 0.04 | 0.1 | 0.37 |
Gender | |||||
Females | 36 | 0.3 | 0.08 | 0.1 | 0.64 |
Males | 23 | 0.2 | 0.50 | 0.2 | 0.37 |
Age | |||||
<13 | 30 | 0.2 | 0.30 | 0.02 | 0.90 |
≥ 13 | 29 | 0.3 | 0.07 | 0.1 | 0.56 |
Parental risk perception | |||||
No risk | 4 | 0.3 | 0.68 | -0.8 | 0.20 |
Low risk | 12 | 0.3 | 0.40 | 0.6 | 0.02 |
Moderate/high risk | 7 | 0.3 | 0.48 | -0.1 | 0.80 |
Don't know | 36 | 0.3 | 0.12 | 0.1 | 0.50 |
Language other than English spoken at home | |||||
No | 44 | 0.2 | 0.10 | 0.3 | 0.06 |
Yes | 15 | 0.3 | 0.24 | -0.4 | 0.13 |
School system | |||||
Catholic | 10 | 0.5 | 0.20 | 0.1 | 0.74 |
Independent | 13 | 0.3 | 0.37 | 0.1 | 0.64 |
Government | 36 | 0.2 | 0.29 | 0.1 | 0.60 |
Socioeconomic status | |||||
Most disadvantaged | 6 | 0.4 | 0.47 | -0.4 | 0.47 |
2nd quintile | 2 | 1 | 0.7 | 0.01 | |
3rd quintile | 12 | 0.2 | 0.80 | 0.2 | 0.48 |
4th quintile | 16 | 0.6 | 0.01 | 0.3 | 0.70 |
Most advantaged | 23 | 0.05 | 0.80 | -0.03 | 0.90 |
*Spearman's correlation coefficient
‡ P value – self reports and logged results are independent