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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Feb 18.
Published in final edited form as: Issues Ment Health Nurs. 2009 Oct;30(10):638–649. doi: 10.1080/01612840903050414

TABLE 1.

Overall Correlations between Parental Monitoring and Characteristics of Play

Time Monitoring Content Monitoring
Total Violent Games .24 .34*,a
Games with Human Violence .26*,a −.48*,a,b
Games with Non-Human Violence −.23,b −.23
Arcade-like Games .07 −.15
Educational Games .12 .38*,a
Exposure to Violent Games .32*,a .31*,a

Note:

*

p < .05,

p < .10; Gender differences:

a

significant for boys,

b

significant for girls