Table 4.
Mobile phone use by adolescents and the prevalence and enforcement of parental rules about use of electronic devices in the recent past
| Frequency of different uses of mobile phones among 768 respondents |
never n (%) |
occasionally n (%) |
sometimes n (%) |
often n (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| listening to music | 27 (3.5%) | 45 (5.9%) | 144 (18.8%) | 550 (71.8%) |
| using social network services | 153 (19.9%) | 81 (10.6%) | 139 (18.1%) | 394 (51.4%) |
| taking photos | 46 (6.0%) | 221 (28.9%) | 241 (31.5%) | 258 (33.7%) |
| connecting to internet | 167 (21.8%) | 171 (22.3%) | 174 (22.7%) | 253 (33.0%) |
| playing video games | 80 (10.4%) | 250 (32.6%) | 242 (31.6%) | 194 (25.3%) |
| messaging | 86 (11.2%) | 362 (47.3%) | 209 (27.3%) | 108 (14.1%) |
| watching television | 494 (64.6%) | 114 (14.9%) | 60 (7.8%) | 97 (12.7%) |
| watching movies | 438 (57.3%) | 153 (20.0%) | 107 (14.0%) | 67 (8.8%) |
| recording videos | 148 (19.3%) | 436 (56.9%) | 148 (19.3%) | 33 (4.3%) |
| FREQUENCY PARENTS ENFORCE RULESa | ||||
| about mobile phone use (n=241) | 8 (1.0%) | 8 (1.0%) | 156 (20.3%) | 69 (9.0%) |
| about use of ANY devices (n=432) | 8 (1.0%) | 20 (2.6%) | 260 (33.9%) | 144 (18.8%) |
a241 (31.4%) of the respondents reported household rules about mobile phone use and 432 (56.3%) reported household rules about use of any electronic device (including mobile phone)s