The mediating role of the home environment in relation to parental educational level and preschool children’s screen time: a cross-sectional study

Table 2 The Spearman Correlation coefficients between the studied factors (listwise N = 610)

	1.	2.	3.	4.	5.	6.	7.	8.	9.
Outcome variable
1. Children’s screen time
Independent variable
2. Parental educational level	−0.119**
Potential mediators
3. Access to screens at home	0.088*	0.024
4. Descriptive norm for children’s screen time	0.344***	−0.099*	0.118*
5. Satisfaction of children’s screen time	−0.299***	−0.048	−0.063	−0.157***
6. Rules for limiting children’s screen time	0.100*	−0.011	0.026	0.198***	−0.153***
7. Parental screen time in front of children	0.286***	−0.144***	0.008	0.290***	−0.165***	0.091*
8. Parental importance for limiting children’s screen time	−0.246***	0.116*	−0.042	−0.222***	0.329***	−0.377***	−0.201***
9. Parental attitude toward societal pressures for screen time	0.144***	−0.163***	−0.018	0.076*	−0.033	−0.075	0.050	0.029
10. Parental self-efficacy for limiting children’s screen time	0.257***	0.065	0.050	0.096*	−0.453***	0.159***	0.281***	−0.272***	0.058

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