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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Child Dev. 2010 Sep;81(5):1598–1619. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2010.01494.x

Table 4.

Weekly Hours in Activity, By Cluster

BOYS Couch
Activity Total Jocks Potatoes Studiers Gamers
Video games 2.33 2.15 1.58 1.47 13.91
Television 12.88 10.90 23.78 7.69 10.96
Computer play 0.74 0.67 0.41 0.98 0.51
Computer study 0.11 0.09 0.11 0.14 0.00
Computer communications 0.14 0.14 0.28 0.06 0.15
Sports 7.12 19.74 4.36 4.22 4.35
Outdoors 0.46 0.48 0.44 0.51 0.24
Noncomputer study 3.01 2.01 2.15 4.02 2.33
Reading 1.12 0.90 1.07 1.33 0.36
N 616 134 166 268 48
GIRLS Couch
Activity Total Jocks Potatoes Studiers Other
Video games 0.71 0.43 0.90 0.63 0.83
Television 13.01 12.08 29.80 5.04 15.41
Computer play 0.44 0.32 0.57 0.31 0.59
Computer study 0.10 0.00 0.00 0.13 0.15
Computer communications 0.07 0.07 0.00 0.11 0.05
Sports 4.61 15.52 2.29 3.82 1.86
Outdoors 0.68 0.61 0.20 1.15 0.40
Noncomputer study 2.59 2.18 1.34 3.62 2.13
Reading 1.26 0.76 1.00 1.58 1.21
N 608 82 90 223 213