Table 2.
Baseline Characteristics of Participants Stratified by Presence of a Bedroom Televisiona
| Bedroom Television | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Baseline Characteristic | Absent | Present | P Valueb |
| Media, mean (SE) | |||
| Television viewing time, h/d | 2.9 (0.0) | 3.2 (0.0) | <.001 |
| Movies viewed, No./wk | 2.8 (0.0) | 3.0 (0.0) | <.001 |
| Video-game playing, h/d | 2.0 (0.0) | 2.2 (0.0) | <.001 |
| Parenting style score, mean (SE) | |||
| Parental demandingness (scale, 0–28) | 23.5 (0.1) | 23.3 (0.1) | .02 |
| Parental responsiveness (scale, 0–36) | 29.6 (0.1) | 29.2 (0.1) | .003 |
| Sociodemographic data | |||
| Age, mean (SE), y | 11.9 (0.0) | 12.1 (0.0) | <.001 |
| Sex | |||
| Male | 36.9 | 63.1 | <.001 |
| Female | 45.1 | 54.9 | |
| Race/ethnicity | |||
| White | 46.2 | 53.8 | <.001 |
| Black | 25.1 | 74.9 | |
| Hispanic | 34.1 | 65.9 | |
| Other | 44.1 | 55.9 | |
| Household income, $ | |||
| ≤10 000 | 26.1 | 73.9 | <.001 |
| 10 001–20 000 | 32.3 | 67.7 | |
| 20 001–30 000 | 35.3 | 64.7 | |
| 30 001–50 000 | 34.5 | 65.5 | |
| 50 001–75 000 | 43.4 | 56.6 | |
| ≥75 001 | 51.2 | 48.8 | |
| Parental educational level | |||
| Less than high school | 31.3 | 68.7 | <.001 |
| High school degree | 30.5 | 69.5 | |
| Some beyond high school | 35.4 | 64.6 | |
| Associate’s degree | 41.8 | 58.2 | |
| Bachelor’s degree | 55.5 | 44.5 | |
| Some graduate school | 61.0 | 39.0 | |
a
Data are part of the Dartmouth Media Study of participants aged 10 to 14 years. We used 6522 participants to create weighted estimates. Unless otherwise indicated, data are expressed as percentage of participants.
b
Calculated from an unpaired, 2-tailed t test with an equal variance assumption to analyze the difference in means and a χ2 test to analyze the difference in proportions of participants with and without bedroom televisions by the different baseline characteristics.