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Table 2 Parameter estimates

From: Gender differences in the associations between age trends of social media interaction and well-being among 10-15 year olds in the UK

 

Happiness

SDQ total difficulties

Females (n = 4765)

Males (n = 4903)

Females (n = 4762)

Males (n = 4901)

PE

95% CI

PE

95% CI

PE

95% CI

PE

95% CI

Model Intercepts

 Well-being Intercept

36.55

(33.32, 39.78)

38.40

(35.20, 41.61)

13.57

(8.86, 18.27)

10.44

(5.54, 15.34)

 Well-being Slope

1.65

(− 0.01, 3.31)

0.76

(−1.00, 2.52)

1.69

(0.44, 2.93)

0.78

(− 0.40, 1.95)

 SMI intercept

0.00

 

0.00

 

0.00

 

0.00

 

 SMI slope

0.44

(− 0.32, 1.20)

0.47

(− 0.26, 1.20)

− 0.17

(− 0.71, 0.36)

0.11

(− 0.46, 0.68)

Growth factor associations

 Path A: Intercept SMI < −-> Intercept WBa

− 0.10

(− 0.19, − 0.01)

−0.02

(− 0.10, 0.07)

0.18

(0.08, 0.27)

0.10

(0.01, 0.19)

 Path B: Slope SMI < −-> Slope WBa

− 0.23

(−0.36, − 0.09)

−0.02

(− 0.15, 0.12)

0.26

(0.09, 0.43)

0.17

(−0.03, 0.36)

 Path C: Slope SMI < −- Intercept SMI

−0.08

(− 0.13, − 0.04)

−0.14

(− 0.17, − 0.11)

−0.08

(− 0.13, − 0.04)

−0.14

(− 0.17, − 0.11)

 Path D: Slope WB < −- Intercept WB

−0.08

(− 0.12, − 0.04)

−0.07

(− 0.11, − 0.03)

−0.10

(− 0.15, − 0.05)

−0.08

(− 0.12, − 0.03)

 Path E: Slope WB < −- Intercept SMI

−0.06

(− 0.13, 0.01)

−0.004

(− 0.05, 0.04)

0.10

(0.004, 0.19)

0.03

(−0.03, 0.10)

 Path F: Slope SMI < −- Intercept WB

−0.01

(− 0.03, 0.001)

−0.01

(− 0.02, 0.002)

0.01

(− 0.01, 0.02)

− 0.001

(− 0.01, 0.01)

Model fit

 Loglikelihood

−43,001.75

 

−42,831.53

 

−31,170.95

 

−31,064.01

 

 AIC

86,111.50

 

85,771.06

 

62,449.90

 

62,236.02

 

 BIC

86,289.24

 

86,121.94

 

62,799.19

 

62,586.86

 
  1. Abbreviations: AIC Akaike Information Criterion, BIC Bayesian Information Criterion, 95% CI 95% Confidence Interval, PE Raw parameter estimate, SMI Social Media Interaction, WB Well-being; <−- regression; <−-> correlation
  2. aCoefficients are correlations