Table 1.
Demographic, social experience, and health indicators | Mean (SD) or % | Cronbach’s alpha | |||||
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Gender | Female 69.0 % Male 28.2 % Non-Binary 2.8 % |
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Age (years) | 20.2 (3.02) | ||||||
White/Anglo ethnicity | 87.3 % | ||||||
Body Mass Index | 23.4 (4.37) | ||||||
In-person/ offline loneliness (1–3 scale) |
1.88 (0.62) | 0.80 | |||||
Generalized social eudaimonia (1–6 scale) |
3.36 (1.11) | 0.80 | |||||
College friends | “0–2″ 28.2 % “3–5″ 43.7 % “6–10″ 25.4 % “11–15″ 2.8 % |
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Online loneliness (1–3 scale) |
1.69 (0.58) | 0.72 | |||||
Cultural consonance online leisure (1–4 scale) |
3.03 (0.57) | 0.89 | |||||
Cultural consonance online educational (1–4 scale) |
2.96 (0.53) | 0.87 | |||||
Exercise, times/week | “none” 12.0 % “1” 35.2 % “2–3″ 34.5 % “3–4″ 16.2 % “more than 4″ 2.1 % |
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Smoker (at least occasionally vs. never) | 16.2 % | ||||||
Drinks typically on weekdays (vs. not) | 19.0 % | ||||||
Number of drinks on typical weekend | “0” 46.5 % “1–5″ 43.7 % “6 or more” 9.9 % |
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Internet activity (hr./day) | “0–1″ | “1–2″ | “2–3″ | “3–4″ | “4–5″ | “5–6″ | “> 6″ |
Streaming entertainment | 5.6 % | 21.1 % | 29.6 % | 21.1 % | 9.2 % | 4.2 % | 9.2 % |
Social media | 14.8 % | 35.2 % | 20.4 % | 16.2 % | 4.9 % | 4.2 % | 4.2 % |
Gaming | 69.7 % | 14.8 % | 11.3 % | 2.1 % | 1.4 % | 0.0 % | 0.7 % |
Voice/video conversations | 44.4 % | 39.4 % | 9.2 % | 4.2 % | 0.7 % | 0.0 % | 2.1 % |
School or work activity | 2.1 % | 11.2 % | 17.6 % | 28.2 % | 11.3 % | 14.3 % | 15.5 % |