Table 2.

Average Causal Effects Between Paranoia and all Other Variables

Causal Effects	Pathway Present	Total z	90% CI	Direct Present	Direct z	90% CI
Variable to paranoia
Negative affect	70%	0.57	0.39–0.72	100%	0.43	0.32–0.63
Body image	46%	−0.21	−0.49 to −0.01	44%	−0.05	−0.15–0.00
Sleep	23%	0.19	0.00–0.46	38%	0.03	0.00–0.10
Peer difficulties	18%	0.21	0.07–0.49	99%	0.15	0.06–0.44
Bullying	46%	0.40	0.22–0.68	100%	0.29	0.20–0.57
SM night use	1%	0.03	−0.01–0.10	3%	0.00	0.00–0.00
SM addiction	1%	0.07	0.00–0.41	54%	0.03	0.00–0.09
SM safety behaviors	40%	0.39	0.19–0.67	100%	0.26	0.16–0.44
SM self-comparison	62%	0.38	0.10–0.67	73%	0.16	0.00–0.40
SM emotion reactivity	47%	0.27	0.06–0.64	80%	0.15	0.00–0.38
Paranoia to variable
Negative affect	30%	0.59	0.41–0.76	100%	0.48	0.36–0.72
Body image	45%	−0.26	−0.51 to −0.02	24%	−0.04	−0.23–0.00
Sleep	47%	0.25	0.00–0.48	21%	0.02	0.00–0.13
Peer difficulties	82%	0.28	0.15–0.44	99%	0.22	0.12–0.32
Bullying	54%	0.42	0.28–0.64	100%	0.35	0.25–0.54
SM night use	94%	0.10	−0.04–0.38	1%	0.00	0.00–0.00
SM addiction	92%	0.14	−0.02–0.43	14%	0.01	0.00–0.11
SM safety behaviors	60%	0.37	0.19–0.63	100%	0.26	0.17–0.41
SM self-comparison	37%	0.36	0.07–0.61	72%	0.17	0.00–0.45
SM emotion reactivity	51%	0.30	0.06–0.59	79%	0.16	0.00–0.37

Note: “Pathway present” = the proportion of DAGs sampled where that pathway occurred; “Total z” = average total causal effect when that pathway was present; “Direct present” = when that pathway occurred, the proportion of cases where the effect was direct; “Direct z” = the average size of the direct effect; CI = credible interval. SM = social media.