Adolescent Internet Abuse: A Study on the Role of Attachment to Parents and Peers in a Large Community Sample

<table class="fixed-width table-group" id="tab1"><tr><td><table class="table"><colgroup><col style="width:8.67em"/><col style="width:6.01em"/><col style="width:4.85em"/><col style="width:5.97em"/><col style="width:5.69em"/><col style="width:6.00em"/><col style="width:5.81em"/></colgroup><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="7"><hr/></td></tr><tr class="thead"><td class="align_left"> </td><td class="align_center" colspan="2">Early adolescence</td><td class="align_center" colspan="2">Middle adolescence</td><td class="align_center" colspan="2">Late adolescence</td></tr><tr class="thead"><td class="align_left"> </td><td class="align_center">Boys</td><td class="align_center">Girls</td><td class="align_center">Boys</td><td class="align_center">Girls</td><td class="align_center">Boys</td><td class="align_center">Girls</td></tr><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="7"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Internet use/abuse</td><td class="align_center">24.64 (9.24)</td><td class="align_center">27.4 (9.5)</td><td class="align_center">23.04 (8.32)</td><td class="align_center">25.49 (9.11)</td><td class="align_center">24.39 (9.46)</td><td class="align_center">23.45 (8.17)</td></tr><tr class="table-tr"><td colspan="7"><hr class="tbody-hr"/></td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

<div>Mean and standard deviations of adolescents’ scores of Internet use/abuse, on the basis of sex and age group.</div>

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Table 1: Adolescent Internet Abuse: A Study on the Role of Attachment to Parents and Peers in a Large Community Sample 