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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Feb 27.
Published in final edited form as: Child Youth Environ. 2009;19(1):170–196. doi: 10.7721/chilyoutenvi.19.1.0170

Table 1.

Mean video game play frequency by gender and grade

Gender Grade Play Frequency
N Never Rarely Sometimes Often
Females 9th 65 M 0.35 0.35 0.20 0.09
SD 0.48 0.48 0.40 0.29
11th 102 M 0.52 0.33 0.10 0.05
SD 0.50 0.47 0.30 0.22
Total 167 M 0.46 0.34 0.14 0.07
SD 0.50 0.48 0.35 0.25
Males 9th 112 M 0.03 0.13 0.37 0.46
SD 0.16 0.34 0.48 0.50
11th 82 M 0.12 0.37 0.20 0.32
SD 0.33 0.48 0.40 0.47
Total 194 M 0.07 0.23 0.29 0.40
SD 0.25 0.42 0.46 0.49

Note: N = 361. Never = Never plays video games. Rarely = Plays video games once or twice a month. Sometimes = Plays video games once or twice a week. Often = Plays video games three or more times a week.