Correction: Social epidemiology of early adolescent problematic screen use in the United States

Correction to: Pediatric Research 10.1038/s41390-022-02176-8, published online 29 June 2022

In the original article, some of the descriptive screen time measures in Table 1 were underestimated and have been corrected. The data of the correlation table in Appendix B have also been updated to reflect these changes. The original article has been corrected.

Appendix B.

Correlations among problematic screen use and screen time

		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11
1	Video Game Addiction Questionnaire Score	–
2	Social Media Addiction Questionnaire Score	0.44	–
3	Mobile Phone Involvement Questionnaire Score	0.34	0.59	–
4	Total recreational screen time	0.31	0.3	0.36	–
5	Television or videos	0.11	0.13	0.17	0.59	–
6	Videos	0.25	0.17	0.22	0.66	0.34	–
7	Single-player video games	0.32	0.13	0.14	0.62	0.34	0.42	–
8	Multi-player video games	0.38	0.11	0.14	0.62	0.28	0.44	0.52	–
9	Texting	0.04	0.21	0.25	0.53	0.32	0.29	0.25	0.19	–
10	Social media	0.03	0.33	0.30	0.54	0.32	0.29	0.23	0.18	0.63	–
11	Video chat	0.05	0.18	0.20	0.46	0.26	0.25	0.24	0.22	0.49	0.48	–
12	Browsing the internet	0.14	0.16	0.15	0.42	0.27	0.32	0.26	0.22	0.27	0.24	0.20

All p < 0.001.

Table 1.

Sociodemographic and screen time characteristics of Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study participants (N = 8753).

	Mean (SD)/%
Sociodemographic characteristics
Age (years)	12.0 (0.7)
Sex (%)
Female	47.8
Male	52.2
Race/ethnicity (%)
White	55.3
Latinx/Hispanic	19.4
Black	15.7
Asian	5.1
Native American	3.2
Other	1.3
Primary language of adolescent (%)
English	88.9
Non-English	11.1
Household income (%)
Less than $75,000	48.0
$75,000 and greater	52.0
Parents’ highest education (%)
High school education or less	14.9
College education or more	85.1
Parent marital status (%)
Married/partnered	70.5
Unmarried/unpartnered	29.5
Screen time
Total recreational screen time	7.34 (5.81)
Television	1.68 (1.83)
Videos	1.48 (1.93)
Single-player video games	1.07 (1.69)
Multi-player video games	1.20 (1.84)
Texting	0.75 (1.59)
Social media	0.76 (1.68)
Video chat	0.51 (1.37)
Browsing the internet	0.37 (0.80)
Problematic screen use measures
Video Game Addiction Questionnaire Scorea	2.09 (1.08)
Social Media Addiction Questionnaire Scoreb	1.85 (0.90)
Mobile Phone Involvement Questionnaire Scorec	3.10 (1.12)

ABCD propensity weights were applied based on the American Community Survey from the US Census.

SD standard deviation.

^aAsked among a subset who reported video game use (n = 7595).

^bAsked among a subset who reported social media use (n = 5652).

^cAsked among a subset who reported mobile use (n = 7361).