Table 3.

Electronic media communication regressed on study year (2002 = 0, 2006 = 1), sex (boy = 0, girl = 1), age group (11, 13, 15 years), number of close friends, number of afternoons per week spent with friends, number of evenings per week spent with friends (standardized regression coefficients and explained variance).

	Year	Age group	Sex	Friends	Afternoons	Evenings	R2
Austria	.07	.26	.17	.15	.15	.20	28.8%
Belgium (FL)	.08	.32	.14	.15	.09	.15	25.3%
Belgium (FR)	.14	.27	.15	.13	.11	.17	21.6%
Canada	.01†	.14	.21	.16	.10	.21	19.2%
Czech Republic	.14	.28	.13	.10	.14	.16	22.2%
Denmark	.26	.23	.13	.16	.14	.22	29.4%
England	.09	.20	.19	.17	.11	.16	19.3%
Estonia	.19	.13	.14	.09	.08	.19	15.7%
Finland	.12	.18	.18	.14	.11	.26	23.0%
France	.28	.30	.18	.09	.15	.11	28.4%
Germany	.05	.22	.17	.14	.17	.14	22.4%
Greece	.03	.30	.19	.09	.13	.18	22.4%
Hungary	.06	.19	.07	.11	.12	.14	12.9%
Ireland	.14	.24	.24	.16	.12	.13	22.1%
Israel	.05	.11	.14	.18	.11	.17	15.3%
Italy	.00†	.26	.27	.07	.16	.08	18.1%
Latvia	.55	.15	.10	.08	.07	.10	37.5%
Lithuania	.28	.14	.14	.12	.12	.15	23.8%
FYRO Macedonia	-.10	.17	.15	.06	.19	.22	17.3%
Malta	.12	.17	.11	.18	.05	.25	20.6%
The Netherlands	.21	.30	.16	.15	.10	.18	28.9%
Poland	.31	.18	.15	.07	.12	.15	23.5%
Portugal	.12	.33	.20	.04	.14	.16	23.9%
Russia	.08	.07	.15	.09	.13	.07	7.5%
Scotland	.10	.23	.22	.15	.10	.21	24.1%
Slovenia	.03	.21	.19	.10	.17	.17	17.6%
Sweden	.16	.26	.17	.13	.19	.20	27.0%
Switzerland	.08	.31	.15	.13	.16	.21	31.7%
Ukraine	.18	.08	.14	.06	.05	.19	12.3%
United States	-.02†	.15	.26	.14	.12	.17	19.5%
Wales	.07	.16	.23	.12	.07	.19	16.1%

Note. All coefficients are significant at the 1% error level except ^†