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Table 5 Differences split out for different grades

From: Internet and game behaviour at a secondary school and a newly developed health promotion programme: a prospective study

Variables

M13 Mean (SD)

Total = 367

M24 Mean (SD)

Total = 367

Second year

Nmax = 176

Nmax = 128

Internet hours/day

1.42 (1.71)

2.12** (1.81)

CIUS score1

1.54 (0.42)

1.72** (0.60)

Game hours/week

2.80 (3.32)

3.18 (5.60)

CGUS score2

1.39 (0.38)

1.46 (0.40)

Third year

Nmax = 76

Nmax = 164

Internet hours/day

2.15 (3.19)

2.07 (1.86)

CIUS score

1.85 (0.60)

1.52** (0.57)

Game hours per week

2.77 (5.06)

4.15 (6.68)

CGUS score

1.43 (0.51)

1.14 (0.38)

Fourth year 3

Nmax = 54

Nmax = 74

Internet hours/day

1.79 (1.55)

2.74(*) (2.42)

CIUS score

1.78 (0.64)

1.93 (0.67)

Game hours per week

2.53 (3.93)

4.37 (9.99)

CGUS score

1.40 (0.48)

1.61(*) (0.61)

  1. 1Compulsive Internet Use Scale * p ≤ 0.05
  2. 2Compulsive Game Use Scale ** p ≤ 0.01
  3. 3 The group fourth year students also consists of students who were in their fourth year in 2007. They did not take part in the prevention program and therefore are not part of the population sample (N = 367) we used for all other analyses.
  4. (Independent T-test and Univariate Analysis of Variance).
  5. (*) = lost significance after correction for covariates
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