Table 4.

Bootstrap analysis for significance test of mediating effects.

	Effect estimates	Bootstrap standard error	Bootstrap CI lower bound	Bootstrap CI upper bound
Positive self-compassion → SMA (total effect)	−0.61	0.03	−0.66	−0.55
Positive self-compassion → SMA (direct effect)	−0.51	0.03	−0.57	−0.44
Positive self-compassion → Gratitude → SMA	−0.10	0.02	−0.14	−0.07
Negative self-compassion → SMA (total effect)	0.58	0.02	0.53	0.62
Negative self-compassion → SMA (direct effect)	0.50	0.02	0.45	0.55
Negative self-compassion → Gratitude → SMA (indirect effect)	0.08	0.01	0.05	0.11

SMA = social media addiction.