Childhood sun safety at different ages: relations between parental sun protection behavior towards their child and children’s own sun protection behavior

Table 2 Frequencies of overall sun safe behaviors and sun safe behavior differences with regards to sex and age using two-way and one-way ANOVA

		Parents								Children
		Overall (N = 1053) (M;SD)		Youngest (4–6)		Intermediate (7–9)		Oldest (10–13)		Overall (M;SD)		Youngest (4–6)		Intermediate (7–9)		Oldest (10–13)
		Boys	Girls	Boys	Girls	Boys	Girls	Boys	Girls	Boys	Girls	Boys	Girls	Boys	Girls	Boys	Girls
Applying sunscreen	Planned	4.36 (.84)	4.41 (.76)	4.54^a	4.42	4.36^a	4.43	4.12^b	4.35	2.51 (1.42)	3.08 (1.43)	2.20^a		2.80^b		3.53^c
	Incidental	3.80 (.96)	3.95 (.88)	4.07^a	4.06^D	3.74^b	3.96^DE	3.48^c	3.82^E	2.25 (1.27)	2.70 (1.30)	2.07^a		2.44^b		3.03^c
Wearing UV-protective clothing	Planned	3.33 (.90)	3.27 (.96)	3.50^a		3.25^b		3.11^b		2.60 (1.22)	2.85 (1.20)	2.37^a		2.77^b		3.09^c
	Incidental	3.42 (.99)	3.30 (.99)	3.53^a		3.33^b		3.20^b		2.48 (1.14)	2.74 (1.14)	2.41^a		2.59^a		2.87^c
Seeking shade	Planned	3.21 (1.00)	3.26 (.94)	3.42^a		3.13^b		3.12^b		2.03 (1.19)	2.19 (1.21)	1.98^a		2.09^a		2.31^b
	Incidental	3.12 (1.02)	3.13 (.98)	3.34^a		3.04^b		2.95^b		2.19 (1.22)	2.28 (2.20)	2.03	2.16^D	2.27	2.12^D	2.31	2.59^E
Supportive behavior	Planned	4.31 (1.11)	4.34 (.95)	4.39		4.26		4.36
	Incidental	4.02 (1.14)	4.06 (1.00)	4.23^a		3.86^b		4.01^b

Levels with different superscripts are significantly different in Tukey’s HSD test when one-way ANOVA was performed and in Sidak’s test when two-way ANOVA was performed (p < 0.05). Analyses were done separately for planned and incidental situations, and, in the case of an interaction between sex and age, separately for boys (using normal letters as superscript) and girls (using capital letters as superscript)

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