Characteristics ab | Cluster 1 (n = 143) (‘Social Screens’) | Cluster 2 (n = 900) (‘The Mainstream’) | Sig. |
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Sociodemographic/physical characteristics | |||
Sex (male), n (%) [w1] | 66 (46.2%) | 472 (52.4%) | 0.162 |
Indigenous, n (%) [w1] | 2 (1.4%) | 21 (2.3%) | 0.758c |
Speaks a language other than English at home, n (%) | 8 (5.6%) | 70 (7.9%) | 0.352 |
Socioeconomic position z-score, mean (SD) | 0.0 (1.1) | 0.1 (1.0) | 0.485 |
Attends public school, n (%) | 89 (63.1%) | 431 (48.3%) | 0.001 |
Number of siblings in household, mean (SD) | 1.6 (1.0) | 1.6 (1.0) | 0.741 |
Child has two parents living at home, n (%) | 119 (83.8%) | 757 (84.1%) | 0.926 |
Body mass index of child z-score, mean (SD) | 0.4 (1.0) | 0.3 (1.0) | 0.577 |
Gross motor coordination scale, mean (SD) | 1.8 (0.4) | 1.8 (0.5) | 0.942 |
Pubertal development scale, mean (SD) | 2.5 (0.8) | 2.2 (0.8) | 0.000d |
PEDS physical health scale, mean (SD) | 82.8 (13.7) | 84.6 (14.9) | 0.179 |
Geographic characteristics | |||
Child lives in an urban area, n (%) | 130 (90.9%) | 760 (84.4%) | 0.042 |
Psychographic characteristics | |||
SDQ internalising symptoms, mean (SD) | 3.3 (2.9) | 3.2 (3.0) | 0.894 |
SDQ externalising symptoms, mean (SD) | 3.9 (3.2) | 3.9 (3.3) | 0.799 |
SATI introversion scale, mean (SD) | 2.6 (0.7) | 2.6 (0.8) | 0.783 |
SATI persistence scale, mean (SD) | 3.6 (0.9) | 3.6 (0.8) | 0.827 |
SATI reactivity scale, mean (SD) | 2.5 (0.9) | 2.4 (0.8) | 0.298 |
Child bullied at school in the last year, n (%) | 40 (28.4%) | 229 (26.2%) | 0.588 |
Behavioral characteristics | |||
Child participated in any out-of-school activities in the last week, n (%) | 106 (74.6%) | 739 (82.2%) | 0.032 |
Overall physical activity, mean min/day (SD)e | 67.2 (74.4) | 82.8 (89.5) | 0.047 |
Season of measurementf | |||
Wave 4 - winter | 60 (42.0%) | 488 (54.2%) | 0.006 |
Wave 4 - autumn | 53 (37.1%) | 216 (24.0%) | 0.001 |