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. 2024 Sep 17;12:1374327. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1374327

Table 4.

Results for main effects in cohort 2 of desire for peer contact on the development of depression symptoms and social anxiety and moderation by gender and emotion regulation strategies.

Symptoms of depression development Symptoms of social anxiety development
B SE 95% CI of B p β B SE 95% CI of B p β
LL UL LL UL
Control effects
Age 0.598 1.400 −2.146 3.343 0.669 0.020 1.209 1.197 −1.138 3.556 0.313 0.038
Gender 2.808 1.231 0.396 5.220 0.022 0.241 0.608 1.888 −3.092 4.308 0.747 0.050
Pre-exposure dep 0.565 0.127 0.315 0.814 <0.001 0.558 0.051 0.104 −0.154 0.255 0.628 0.047
Pre-exposure anx 0.066 0.069 −0.069 0.201 0.336 0.072 0.567 0.028 0.512 0.622 <0.001 0.587
Main effects
Peer contact 1.698 0.948 −0.160 3.556 0.073 0.134 1.317 0.772 −0.196 2.831 0.088 0.099
Moderation by gender
Peer contact −0.047 1.006 −2.019 1.924 0.962 −0.004 −0.765 1.086 −2.893 1.364 0.481 −0.057
Gender 2.949 1.277 0.446 5.452 0.021 0.254 0.776 1.976 −3.096 4.649 0.694 0.063
Peer contact × gender 3.098 0.964 1.208 4.988 0.001 0.185 3.696 1.116 1.508 5.883 0.001 0.209
Moderation by adaptive and maladaptive emotion regulation strategies
Peer contact 1.553 0.771 0.041 3.065 0.044 0.126 1.085 0.685 −0.258 2.428 0.113 0.084
Adaptive ER −0.078 0.668 −2.091 0.529 0.243 −0.062 −0.131 0.306 −0.732 0.469 0.668 −0.010
Maladaptive ER 2.176 0.669 0.865 3.486 0.001 0.162 2.113 0.770 0.602 3.623 0.006 0.148
Peer contact × adaptive ER 0.362 0.876 −1.356 2.079 0.680 0.026 −0.650 0.825 −2.266 0.967 0.431 −0.044
Peer contact × maladaptive ER 1.018 0.805 −0.560 2.597 0.206 0.069 1.074 0.899 −0.689 2.836 0.232 0.068

dep = symptoms of depression; anx = symptoms of social anxiety; ER = emotion regulation. Bold estimates are significant effects of interest.