Results
Television viewing
On average, the respondents in our sample watched 22:27 hours of television
per week (SD=11:53). These numbers are comparable with other research in Belgium.
In a recent study of 2127 adolescents, Eggermont (2004), for instance, found an
average of 21:36 (SD=11:02).
A categorical variable was made by combining gender and study year. Means
and standard deviations for the television viewing variable were computed for gender
and year and a one way analysis of variance was conducted to analyze whether
television viewing differed significantly for year and/or gender by means of a post
hoc Tukey Test, which tests whether the means for the values of the independent
variable differ at the p