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Table 4 Associations between media regulation strategies and screen time of children and parents, ownership of media devices, and engagement in extracurricular activities

From: Media regulation strategies in parents of 4- to 16-year-old children and adolescents: a cross-sectional study

  

Media regulation strategy

  

Co-use

Active mediation

Restrictive mediation

Monitoring

Technical mediation

Screen time child (n = 563)

OR

0.96

0.95

0.92

0.94

0.94

95% CI

0.83–1.10

0.82–1.09

0.82–1.04

0.84–1.05

0.82–1.08

P

0.542

0.498

0.180

0.288

0.417

Ownership smartphone

(n = 563)

OR

0.75

0.81

0.94

0.92

2.21

95% CI

0.40–1.39

0.52–1.26

0.54–1.63

0.55–1.55

1.16–4.24

P

0.354

0.352

0.834

0.764

< 0.05

Ownership table/pc/laptop (n = 563)

OR

1.02

1.07

0.83

1.10

2.40

95% CI

0.68–1.54

0.57–1.99

0.49–1.40

0.68–1.79

1.31–4.42

P

0.927

0.833

0.485

0.698

< 0.01

Ownership TV

OR

0.59

0.78

0.72

1.03

0.64

(n = 563)

95% CI

0.33–1.06

0.43–1.40

0.47–1.11

0.66–1.61

0.36–1.11

 

P

0.080

0.404

0.138

0.897

0.113

Extracurricular activities

(n = 526)

OR

0.75

0.99

0.97

1.00

1.12

95% CI

0.35–1.60

0.54–1.82

0.58–1.63

0.60–1.65

0.63–2.02

P

0.451

0.966

0.915

0.987

0.701

Screen time parents

(n = 366)

OR

1.14

1.01

0.85

0.96

0.88

95% CI

1.03–1.27

0.92–1.12

0.77–0.94

0.87–1.06

0.79–0.98

P

< 0.01

0.796

< 0.01

0.451

< 0.05

  1. All associations were adjusted for age of child, age of parent, and sex of child. In the analyses regarding screen time of children, media device ownership, and engagement in extracurricular activities, we controlled for family relationships within the sample (siblings) by including the family id as random effect. The analyses regarding screen time of parents was only conducted in a sample excluding (older) siblings.