Skip to main content
PLOS One logoLink to PLOS One
. 2018 Dec 14;13(12):e0208844. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0208844

Correction: Association between mobile technology use and child adjustment in early elementary school age

The PLOS ONE Staff
PMCID: PMC6294347  PMID: 30550558

In Table 1, some values appear in the incorrect columns. Please see the corrected Table 1 here.

Table 1. Participant characteristics (N = 1,642).

Non-regular users
(less than 60 minutes a day)
n = 1,412
Regular users
(60 minutes or more a day)
n = 230
n % n % n % p -value
Sex
Female 801 48.8 712 50.4 89 38.7 .001
Male 841 51.2 700 49.6 141 61.3
Presence of parents
Two-parent family 1514 92.2 1302 92.2 212 92.2 .985
Single-parent family 128 7.8 110 7.8 18 7.8
Presence of siblings
Yes 1370 83.4 1180 83.6 190 82.6 .716
No 272 16.6 232 16.4 40 17.4
Annual household income (in millions of JPY)
≥ 9 276 17.3 242 17.6 34 15.2 .026
6–9 458 28.6 406 29.5 52 23.2
3–6 704 44.0 599 43.5 105 46.9
< 3 162 10.1 129 9.4 33 14.7
Maternal education level
More than 4 years at college/university 526 32.4 471 33.7 55 24.2 < .001
Up to 4 years at college/university 674 41.5 586 41.9 88 38.8
Upper secondary school 385 23.7 312 22.3 73 32.2
Compulsory education 40 2.5 29 2.1 11 4.8
Paternal education level
More than 4 years at college/university 878 56.0 772 57.3 106 47.7 < .001
Up to 4 years at college/university 233 14.9 200 14.8 33 14.9
Upper secondary school 381 24.3 323 24.0 58 26.1
Compulsory education 77 4.9 52 3.9 25 11.3
Maternal employment status
Employed (full-time) 415 25.8 359 26.0 56 24.8 .485
Employed (part-time) 542 33.7 458 33.1 84 37.2
Unemployed/homemaker 652 40.5 566 40.9 86 38.1
Paternal employment status
Employed (full-time) 1527 98.0 1311 98.1 216 97.7 .821
Employed (part-time) 27 1.7 23 1.7 4 1.8
Unemployed/homemaker 4 .3 3 .2 1 .5
Maternal average spending time of talking or playing with children (minutes per day)
≥ 60 1520 94.5 1306 94.4 214 95.5 .474
< 60 88 5.5 78 5.6 10 4.5
Paternal average spending time of talking or playing with children (minutes per day)
≥ 60 858 58.1 731 57.6 127 60.5 .442
< 60 620 41.9 537 42.4 83 39.5
Emotional/behavioral problems at preschool
Normal/borderline 1501 91.6 1301 92.3 200 87.3 .011
Abnormal 137 8.4 108 7.7 29 12.7

Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire–Total Difficulties Score: normal/borderline: 0–15, abnormal: 16–40

Reference

  • 1.Hosokawa R, Katsura T (2018) Association between mobile technology use and child adjustment in early elementary school age. PLoS ONE 13(7): e0199959 10.1371/journal.pone.0199959 [DOI] [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]

Articles from PLoS ONE are provided here courtesy of PLOS

RESOURCES