Table 5.

Parameter estimates for the bivariate fixed RICLPMs modelling social media use and depressive symptoms with gender and family’s financial status as covariates (N = 2891).

Parameter	B	SE	95% CI	p	β
T1 correlation	0.03	0.02	−0.00 to 0.07	0.075	0.08
Correlated change	0.01	0.01	−0.01 to 0.04	0.319	0.03
Between-person correlation	−0.00	0.02	−0.04 to 0.03	0.883	−0.01
Cross-lagged paths
DepS → SoMe	0.12	0.06	−0.01 to 0.23	0.060	0.07 to 0.08
DepS T3 → SoMe T5	0.19	0.19	−0.18 to 0.56	0.325	0.16
SoMe → Deps	0.01	0.03	−0.01 to 0.06	0.898	0.01
SoMe T3 → Deps T5	0.07	0.09	−0.09 to 0.23	0.381	0.11
Autoregressive paths
SoMe → SoMe	0.31	0.03	0.21 to 0.42	<0.001	0.32 to 0.35
SoMe T3 → SoMe T5	−0.02	0.14	−0.30 to 0.26	0.913	−0.02
DepS → Deps	0.14	0.10	−0.05 to 0.33	0.145	0.12 to 0.14
Deps T3 → DepS T5	0.14	0.13	−0.12 to 0.39	0.291	0.15
DepS T5 → Deps T6	0.53	0.08	0.38 to 0.68	<0.001	0.45

Note: B, unstandardized beta weights; β, standardized beta weights; CI, unstandardized confidence intervals; DepS, depressive symptoms; SoMe, social media use. Autoregressive and cross-lagged paths were set equal across time, excluding paths between T3 and T5.