TABLE 3.

Participants’ report of parental monitoring, emotional symptoms, and online time.

Parental monitoring
Item	Never/rarely		Sometimes		Often/always
	Count	%	Count	%	Count	%
(1) Do your parents really know what you do when you surf on the Internet and what sites you visit?	1,063	29.86	848	23.82	1,649	46.32
(2) How often do you tell your parents what you and your friends do when you’re on the Internet?	2,014	56.51	835	23.43	715	20.06
(3) Do you have to tell your parents what you’re doing on the Internet?	2,387	67.58	591	16.73	554	15.69
(4) How often do your parents talk to you about what you’re doing on the Internet?	2,324	65.99	718	20.39	480	13.63
(5) Do your parents give you a limit on the time that you spend on the internet and sites that you can visit?	2,070	58.41	664	18.74	810	22.86
Emotional symptoms
Item	Not true		Partially true		Totally true
	Count	%	Count	%	Count	%
(1) I get a lot of headaches, stomach aches, or sickness	2,185	61.78	953	26.94	399	11.28
(2) I worry a lot	814	23.20	1690	48.16	1,005	28.64
(3) I am often unhappy, down-hearted, or tearful	2,140	61.71	959	27.65	369	10.64
(4) I am nervous in new situations. I easily lose confidence	1,414	40.52	1546	44.30	530	15.19
(5) I have many fears, I am easily scared	2,160	61.66	1021	29.15	322	9.19
Online time
Item	Less than 1 h		1–3 h		More than 3 h
	Count	%	Count	%	Count	%
(1) How long do you use Internet in a normal working day?	1,054	30.64	1564	45.47	822	23.90
(2) How long do you play video games in a normal working day?	1,918	61.63	944	30.33	250	8.03
(3) How long do you use technological tools in a normal working day?	780	23.53	1546	46.64	989	29.83

N = 3,602.