Table 8.

Results analysis of mediating benefits.

Term	Effect	Boot SE	BootLLCI	BootULCI	z	p
Social media addiction ⇒ Physical appearance comparison ⇒ Negative emotions	0.01	0.01	0.00	0.01	0.47	0.01
Social media addiction ⇒ Sleep quality ⇒ Negative emotions	0.22	0.03	0.06	0.17	8.39	0.00
Social media addiction ⇒ Physical appearance comparisons ⇒ Sleep quality ⇒ Negative emotions	0.04	0.01	0.01	0.05	5.32	0.00

BootLLCI refers to the lower limit of the 95% interval for Bootstrap sampling, and BootULCI refers to the upper limit of the 95% interval for Bootstrap sampling.