Daily TV Use and Meaning in Life Among Older Adults: The Moderating Role of Selective and Compensatory TV Use

Figures & data

Table 1. Selective and compensatory TV use, age, sex, relationship status, and subjective health for the sample.

	(n = 101)
Selective Media Use
Range	1-5
M	4.12
SD	0.89
N/A	3.00%
Compensatory Media Use
Range	1-5
Mean	1.51
SD	0.78
N/A	2.00%
Age
Range	60-88
Mean	71.33
SD	7.24
N/A	1.00%
Sex
Female	53.40%
Male	45.50%
N/A	1.00%
Relationship Status
In a relationship	49.50%
Single	49.50%
N/A	1.00%
Subjective Health
Range	1-5
M	3.91
SD.	0.85
N/A	0.00%

Table 2. Means and standard deviations of TV use and meaning in life across days.

	M	SD
Self-reported TV use
Day 1	5.46	4.92
Day 2	5.63	4.72
Day 3	5.56	4.49
Day 4	5.08	4.63
Day 5	5.33	4.71
Daily Meaning in life
Day 1	4.19	0.68
Day 2	4.19	0.68
Day 3	4.19	0.74
Day 4	4.27	0.68
Day 5	4.30	0.61

Table 3. Between-person correlations with 95% confidence intervals [in Brackets].

	1	2	3	4	5	6
1. Average Meaning in life	-
2. Self-reported TV use	0.12 [.003, .22]			-
3. Selective TV Use	0.41	0.09	-
	[.31, .49]	[−.001, .17]
4. Compensatory TV Use	−0.26	0.24	−0.01	-
	[−.36, −.16]	[.16, .33]	[−.10, .08]
5. Age	0.24	−0.04	0.17	0.11	-
	[.14, .35]	[−.13, .05]	[.09, .26]	[.02, .19]
6. Health	0.17	−0.19	0.08	−0.40	−0.06	-
	[.06, .28]	[−.27, −.11]	[−.01, .17]	[−.47, −.33]	[−.15, −02]

Results with a p < .05 are bolded.

Table 4. Building up of five multilevel models with Level 1 and Level 2 variables predicting daily meaning in life.

Predictors	Model 1		Model 2		Model 3		Model 4		Model 5
Fixed Effects	Est.	[95% CI]	Est.	[95% CI]	Est.	[95% CI]	Est.	[95% CI]	Est.	[95% CI]
Intercept	4.2	[4.08, 4.32]	4.23	[4.11, 4.36]	4.27	[4.16, 4.38]	4.26	[4.15, 4.37]	4.25	[4.12, 4.37]
Day^a			0.02	[−0.01, 0.04]	0.02	[−0.01, 0.04]	0.02	[−0.01, 0.04]	0.02	[−0.01, 0.04]
TV use (w/n)			−0.01	[−0.02, 0.00]	−0.01	[−0.02, 0.00]	−0.01	[−0.02, 0.01]	−0.01	[−0.0, 0.01]
TV use (b/n)			0.03	[−0.00, 0.06]	0.03	[−0.00, 0.06]	0.03	[−0.00, 0.06]	0.03	[0.00, 0.06]
Selective TV use					0.20	[0.08, 0.31]	0.20	[0.08, 0.32]	0.16	[0.07, 0.28]
Compensatory TV use					−0.25	[−0.39, −0.10]	−0.25	[−0.39, −0.10]	−0.23	[−0.38, −0.07]
TV use (w/n)*Selective TV use							−0.01	[−0.03, 0.00]	−0.01	[−0.03, 0.00]
TV use (w/n)*Compensatory TV use							−0.02	[−0.03, −0.003]	−0.02	[−0.03, −0.003]
Age									0.02	[−0.00, 0.03]
Health									0.11	[−0.04, 0.26]
Relationship status^b									−0.21	[−0.55, 0.13]
Random Effects	SD [95% CI]		SD [95% CI]		SD [95% CI]		SD [95% CI]		SD [95% CI]
Intercept	.57 [.49, .67]		.56 [.49, .66]		.49 [.42, .57]		.49 [.42, .58]		.48 [.41, .56]
Residual	.38 [.35, .41]		.37 [.35, .41]		.38 [.35, .41]		.34 [.37, .40]		.34 [.37, .40]
ICC	.70		.69		.63		.64		.63
AIC	630.213		629.632		604.262		601.186		582.252

TV use is entered both within (w/n) and between (b/n) people. Results with a p < .05 are bolded.

^aDay is coded −2 = Monday, −1 = Tuesday, 0 = Wednesday, 1 = Thursday, 2 = Friday,

^bRelationship status is coded 0 = single, 1 = in a relationship,

Figure 1. Daily meaning in life as a function of the cross-level interaction between compensatory TV use (Level 2) and daily TV use (Level 1, w/n).