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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Child Media. 2013 Oct 9;8(2):163–182. doi: 10.1080/17482798.2013.824494

Table 4. Mothers' structural life circumstances as predictors of children's estimated TV/video viewing.

Model 1 Model 2a Model : 2b Model 3
B(SE B) β B(SE B) β B(SE B) B B(SE B) β
Mother's education −0.10 (0.04) −0.08 −0.06 (0.04) −0.06 0.001 (0.04) 0.001 0.002 (0.04) 0.002
Mother's age 0.02 (0.01) 0.09* 0.004 (0.01) 0.02 0.01 (0.01) 0.02 −0.01 (0.01) −0.02
Number of rooms in the home −0.10 (0.06) −0.07 −0.12 (0.06) −0.08* −0.05 (0.05) −0.03 −0.09 (0.05) −0.06
Child's age 0.06(0.01) 0.23** 0.06(0.01) 0.23**
Mother is unemployeda(dummy) 0.43 (0.16) 0.10** 0.35 (0.15) 0.08*
Mother is employeda (dummy) 0.23 (0.12) 0.07 0.09 (0.12) 0.03
>1 child 3–24 months old (dummy) 0.31 (0.18) 0.06 0.28(0.17) 0.05
Child is in childcare (dummy) −0.61 (0.19) −0.16** −0.50 (0.17) −0.13**
Non-traditional video source index 0.1 9 (0.04) 0.16** 0.09 (0.04) 0.08*
Toy index 0.01 (0.002) 0.14** 0.01 (0.002) 0.14**
Child is in childcare with TV (dummy) 1.23 (0.23) 0.24** 0.94 (0.22) 0.19**
Child has a bedroom TV (dummy) 0.27(0.11) 0.08* 0.18(0.11) 0.05
Mother's TV/video time 0.03 (0.004) 0.26** 0.03 (0.004) 0.20**
Attitude 0.34 (0.05) 0.34** 0.28 (0.05) 0.28**
Injunctive norms 0.07 (0.04) 0.09 0.02 (0.04) 0.02
Descriptive norms 0.16 (0.07) 0.10* 0.14(0.06) 0.09*
Perceived behavioral control −0.20 (0.05) −0.13** −0.17 (0.05) −0.11**
R 0.12 0.52 0.48 0.61
Adj. R2 0.01 0.25 0.22 0.35

N = 685. ΔR2 for Step 2a = 0.25 (p < .01); for Step 2b = 0.22 (p < .01); for Step 3 = 0.10 (p < .01).

a

Homemakers omitted as comparison category.

**

p < .01;

*

p < .05;

p < .10.