There are errors in the author affiliations. The affiliations should appear as shown here:
Phil Reed1, Rebecca Vile1, Lisa A. Osborne2, Michela Romano3, Roberto Truzoli3
1 Swansea University, Swansea, United Kingdom, 2 Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board, Swansea, United Kingdom, 3 Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy.
There is an error in Table 1. The second occurrence of the word “Gambling” in the first column should read “Gaming.” Please see the corrected Table 1 here.
Table 1. Percentage of sample visiting websites of various forms, along with percentage male and females, and younger and older, participants visiting sites along with Phi coefficients.
| Sample | Female | Male | Phi | <30 years | 30+ years | Phi | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Social Networking | 95.0 | 97.0 | 92.9 | .094* | 96.6 | 91.6 | .105* |
| Shopping/Banking | 87.1 | 90.6 | 83.2 | .108** | 84.6 | 92.9 | .115** |
| Research | 82.2 | 83.0 | 81.1 | .023 | 84.6 | 76.8 | .094* |
| Gambling | 70.3 | 70.2 | 70.8 | .007 | 70.8 | 69.9 | .012 |
| TV and film | 67.3 | 64.2 | 70.8 | .071 | 68.0 | 65.8 | .022 |
| Dating & sexual | 65.0 | 59.2 | 73.3 | .148*** | 66.0 | 65.8 | .002 |
| News | 57.4 | 58.5 | 56.2 | .023 | 52.9 | 67.7 | .139*** |
| Content sharing | 46.5 | 44.5 | 48.8 | .042 | 46.0 | 47.7 | .016 |
| Gaming | 28.3 | 20.0 | 37.5 | .194*** | 27.4 | 30.3 | .030 |
| Blogging | 16.8 | 15.5 | 18.3 | .038 | 14.3 | 22.6 | .102* |
| Chat rooms | 9.8 | 1.9 | 16.7 | .259*** | 6.3 | 14.8 | .138*** |
*p < 0.05
**p < 0.01
***p < 0.001.
Reference
- 1. Reed P, Vile R, Osborne LA, Romano M, Truzoli R (2015) Problematic Internet Usage and Immune Function. PLoS ONE 10(8): e0134538 doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0134538 [DOI] [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]