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. 2017 Oct 17;8:1833. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01833

Table 2.

Bivariate correlations among media variables, non-media variables, and EF.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
(1) EF -
(2) Child’s age 0.79** -
(3) Child’s gender 0.04 0.10 -
(4) Child’s vocabulary 0.72** 0.76** 0.12 -
(5) Maternal education 0.03 0.11 -0.04 0.22* -
(6) Family income 0.14 0.20* 0.07 0.12 0.30** -
(7) Onset of TV viewing 0.17 0.20* -0.05 0.12 0.02 -0.04 -
(8) TV viewing time 0.12 0.04 0.02 -0.08 -0.02 -0.01 -0.20* -
(9) Child channels viewing 0.21* 0.22* -0.06 0.11 0.02 0.01 -0.05 0.43** -
(10) Adult channels viewing 0.11 0.05 -0.12 0.08 -0.05 -0.07 0.03 0.22* 0.17 -
(11) Action cartoons viewing 0.16 0.22* 0.24** 0.13 0.09 0.08 -0.03 0.12 0.14 -0.09 -
(12) Classic cartoons viewing 0.30** 0.13 -0.09 0.10 0.12 0.07 -0.12 0.33** 0.35** 0.05 0.30** -
(13) Live educational children’s programs viewing 0.14 -0.01 -0.22* -0.02 0.08 -0.07 0.03 0.17 0.28** 0.30** 0.06 0.35** -
(14) Fast-paced cartoons viewing 0.29** 0.20* 0.03 0.22* -0.02 0.05 -0.07 0.39** 0.55** 0.18 0.23* 0.38** 0.25** -
(15) Educational cartoons viewing 0.04 -0.04 -0.23* -0.01 0.05 -0.02 -0.04 0.29** 0.42** 0.02 -0.05 0.40** 0.53** 0.42** -
(16) Situation comedies for children viewing 0.24* 0.24** -0.15 0.10 0.13 0.07 0.05 0.25** 0.36** 0.29** 0.14 0.10 0.43** 0.33** 0.40** -
(17) Restrictive approach -0.16 -0.04 -0.01 0.01 0.16 0.09 0.13 -0.15 -0.05 0.01 -0.11 -0.13 -0.01 -0.14 0.07 0.02 -
(18) Coviewing approach -0.07 -0.13 -0.10 -0.17 -0.16 -0.19* 0.13 0.02 -0.07 0.00 -0.05 -0.06 0.11 -0.03 0.05 0.12 0.33** -
(19) Instructive approach 0.13 0.04 -0.02 0.02 -0.16 -0.03 0.09 -0.01 0.08 0.02 0.12 0.10 0.23* 0.03 0.12 0.21* 0.16 0.38∗∗

p < 0.05, ∗∗p < 0.01.