Table 4.

Mediating role of ADHD on the associations of personality traits with Internet addiction

Predictors	Path coefficients				a * b (95% CI)
	c	a	b	c’
Extraversion	−0.001	0.082**	0.318**	− 0.027	0.026 (0.007, 0.048)
Agreeableness	−0.123**	−0.129**	0.318**	−0.082**	− 0.041 (− 0.063, − 0.022)
Conscientiousness	−0.317**	− 0.269**	0.318**	− 0.231**	−0.085 (− 0.110, − 0.066)
Neuroticism	0.163**	0.214**	0.318**	0.095**	0.068 (0.047, 0.093)
Openness	0.012	−0.009	0.318**	0.015	−0.003 (− 0.022, 0.017)

c: associations of personality traits with Internet addiction; a: associations of personality traits with ADHD symptoms; b: associations of ADHD symptoms with Internet addiction after controlling for the predictor variables; c’: associations of personality traits with Internet addiction after adding ADHD symptoms as mediator; a * b: the product of a and b; 95% CI: the bias-corrected and accelerated 95% confidence interval

Gender, age group, hometown, and grade year were covariates. ** p < 0.01(two-tailed)