Table 1.

Main effects of parental alcoholism and gender on media use and psychological problems

	Parental alcoholism		Gender		Scale range
	No	Yes	Boys	Girls
Media use
Watching TV	4.20 (.09)	4.04 (.17)	4.10 (.15)	4.13 (.13)	1–6
Talking on the phone	3.28 (.10)	3.46 (.20)	2.93 (.17)	3.81 (.15)***	1–6
Playing video games	2.58 (.09)	2.59 (.18)	3.37 (.15)	1.80 (.13)***	1–6
E-mailing or IMing	2.77 (.11)	2.57 (.21)	2.44 (.18)	2.91 (.16)†	1–6
Text messaging	2.14 (.10)	2.07 (.19)	1.92 (.17)	2.28 (.14)	1–6
Surfing the Web	3.21 (.11)	3.08 (.21)	3.05 (.18)	3.24 (.15)	1–6
Psychological problems
Anxiety	19.56 (.75)	22.90 (1.44)*	18.90 (1.24)	23.56 (1.05)**	0–82
Depression	37.29 (.75)	39.17 (1.44)	37.34 (1.24)	39.12 (1.04)	20–80

Means (and standard errors) are presented.

^†p < .10

^*p < .05

^**p < .01

^***p < .001