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. 2021 Dec 20;12:697358. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.697358

TABLE 2.

Demographical variance analysis of sports attitude and sports behavior (N = 589).

Variable Family sports attitude
Sports participation
Screen time
Children’s BMI
M SD M SD M SD M SD
Boy 31.80 7.08 23.25 15.08 5.30 1.89 15.94 1.57
Girls 31.55 8.11 22.06 13.83 5.13 1.96 15.44 1.56
T 0.39 0.99 1.03 1.23
Primary school (A) 28.04 6.52 18.78 12.66 5.65 1.70 16.87 1.52
Middle school to high school (B) 31.68 8.67 20.14 12.46 5.26 1.91 15.74 1.69
College or above (C) 34.43 6.88 26.19 15.38 4.85 2.03 15.14 1.11
F (mother) Multiple comparison 49.74*** 18.67*** 10.98*** 98.14***
C > B; B > A C > A A > C A > B; B > C
Primary school (a) 28.83 7.87 20.68 13.52 5.42 1.88 16.29 1.82
Middle school to high school (b) 33.34 7.21 23.17 15.24 5.27 1.93 15.60 1.19
College or above (c) 33.58 6.65 24.21 14.62 4.91 1.96 15.57 1.43
F (father) Multiple comparison 28.39*** 3.48*** 3.95** 24.35***
c > a; b > a c > a c > a c > a; b > a
Single parent (I) 24.45 12.70 35.90 12.84 4.25 2.17 15.23 1.07
Nuclear family (II) 31.94 7.26 13.59 6.93 5.20 1.96 15.92 1.63
Grandparenting (III) 29.56 9.21 34.26 12.77 5.10 2.05 15.47 1.86
Three generations under one roof (IV) 32.44 6.85 32.00 13.38 5.33 1.81 15.88 1.44
F (family structure) Multiple comparison 6.02*** 2.29*** 1.58** 1.74
III > I; I > IV IV > I; II > I

*p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, and ***p < 0.001.