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As for the purpose of use, the data show that what children do most is
watch TV or YouTube videos, and what they do least is visit social network sites
or communicate with their friends and family using DM (Figure 1).
zdravje otrok in mladostnikov | health of children and adolescents 116 Figure 1. The percentage of children using DM for different purposes
As for how often children experience different socio-emotional and
health problems, parents report that such problems occur rarely to sometimes
(Table 2). Descriptive data for parental perception of DM are presented in Ta-
ble 2.
Table 2. Descriptive statistics for variables in the study
Variable Mean SD
Child feels sick 1.32 .66
Dissatisfaction 1.91 .63
Frustration and attention problems 1.66 .53
Social relationships 1.40 .50
Positive perception of DM 27.78 6.16
Negative perception of DM 49.90 7.37
The relationship between children’s DM use (time spent using different
devices and the purpose of such use), its socio-emotional and health outcomes
and its positive and negative parental perception were tested using non para-
metric correlations due to non-normal distribution of the variables. Only a few
correlations were statistically significant. The incidence of child sickness is pos-
itively associated wisinthegtaimtiveeslyperneltawteadtcthoitnigmYeosupTeunbt epl(arys=in.2g27e,dpu=c.a0t2io7)n,atlhgealmeveesl
of dissatisfaction
(rs=-.250, p=.015), the level of frustration and problems with attention are pos-
watch TV or YouTube videos, and what they do least is visit social network sites
or communicate with their friends and family using DM (Figure 1).
zdravje otrok in mladostnikov | health of children and adolescents 116 Figure 1. The percentage of children using DM for different purposes
As for how often children experience different socio-emotional and
health problems, parents report that such problems occur rarely to sometimes
(Table 2). Descriptive data for parental perception of DM are presented in Ta-
ble 2.
Table 2. Descriptive statistics for variables in the study
Variable Mean SD
Child feels sick 1.32 .66
Dissatisfaction 1.91 .63
Frustration and attention problems 1.66 .53
Social relationships 1.40 .50
Positive perception of DM 27.78 6.16
Negative perception of DM 49.90 7.37
The relationship between children’s DM use (time spent using different
devices and the purpose of such use), its socio-emotional and health outcomes
and its positive and negative parental perception were tested using non para-
metric correlations due to non-normal distribution of the variables. Only a few
correlations were statistically significant. The incidence of child sickness is pos-
itively associated wisinthegtaimtiveeslyperneltawteadtcthoitnigmYeosupTeunbt epl(arys=in.2g27e,dpu=c.a0t2io7)n,atlhgealmeveesl
of dissatisfaction
(rs=-.250, p=.015), the level of frustration and problems with attention are pos-
