Table 3.

Serial mediation analysis results of the relationship between social autistic trait and problematic smartphone use

		Effect	BootSE	95% CI
				Lower	Upper
c1	Social autistic trait → problematic smartphone use (total effect)	0.401	0.057	0.282	0.503
c1'	Social autistic trait → problematic smartphone use (direct effect)	− 0.086	0.077	− 0.230	0.072
ab	Total indirect effect	0.487	0.061	0.378	0.618
a1b1	Social autistic trait → anxiety → problematic smartphone use	0.178	0.066	0.058	0.314
a2b2	Social autistic trait → executive dysfunction → problematic smartphone use	0.183	0.047	0.101	0.289
a1db2	Social autistic trait → anxiety → executive dysfunction → problematic smartphone use	0.125	0.035	0.069	0.209