Table 2.
Mean preferences for different types of video games by gender and grade
| Gender | Grade | N | Action | Music | Shooter |
Adven-
ture |
Puzzle | Sports |
Extreme
Sports |
Racing | Strategy | Fighting |
Role
Playing |
Don’t
Play |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Females | 9th | 65 | M | 0.23 | 0.12 | 0.14 | 0.32 | 0.11 | 0.22 | 0.08 | 0.28 | 0.14 | 0.12 | 0.18 | 0.34 |
| SD | 0.43 | 0.33 | 0.35 | 0.47 | 0.31 | 0.41 | 0.27 | 0.45 | 0.35 | 0.33 | 0.39 | 0.48 | |||
| 11th | 101 | M | 0.15 | 0.08 | 0.06 | 0.19 | 0.12 | 0.17 | 0.08 | 0.20 | 0.14 | 0.11 | 0.09 | 0.50 | |
| SD | 0.36 | 0.27 | 0.24 | 0.39 | 0.33 | 0.38 | 0.27 | 0.40 | 0.35 | 0.31 | 0.29 | 0.50 | |||
| Total | 166 | M | 0.18 | 0.10 | 0.09 | 0.24 | 0.11 | 0.19 | 0.08 | 0.23 | 0.14 | 0.11 | 0.13 | 0.44 | |
| SD | 0.39 | 0.30 | 0.29 | 0.43 | 0.32 | 0.39 | 0.27 | 0.42 | 0.35 | 0.32 | 0.33 | 0.50 | |||
| Males | 9th | 111 | M | 0.46 | 0.01 | 0.56 | 0.30 | 0.02 | 0.66 | 0.10 | 0.27 | 0.20 | 0.23 | 0.31 | 0.03 |
| SD | 0.50 | 0.01 | 0.50 | 0.46 | 0.13 | 0.48 | 0.30 | 0.45 | 0.40 | 0.42 | 0.46 | 0.16 | |||
| 11th | 82 | M | 0.38 | 0.06 | 0.41 | 0.21 | 0.11 | 0.62 | 0.12 | 0.26 | 0.18 | 0.27 | 0.24 | 0.10 | |
| SD | 0.49 | 0.24 | 0.50 | 0.41 | 0.32 | 0.49 | 0.33 | 0.44 | 0.39 | 0.45 | 0.43 | 0.30 | |||
| Total | 193 | M | 0.42 | 0.03 | 0.50 | 0.26 | 0.06 | 0.64 | 0.11 | 0.26 | 0.19 | 0.24 | 0.28 | 0.06 | |
| SD | 0.50 | 0.17 | 0.50 | 0.44 | 0.23 | 0.48 | 0.31 | 0.44 | 0.40 | 0.43 | 0.45 | 0.23 |
Note: N = 359.