TABLE 5.
Mediation analysis: indirect and total effects.
| Type | Effect | Estimate | SE |
95% C.I. a |
β | z | p | |
| Lower | Upper | |||||||
| Indirect | CTS correct ⇒ GAS ⇒ weekly game time | −5.01 | 8.73 | −22.98 | 11.23 | −0.03 | −0.57 | 0.57 |
| IGT detrimental decks ⇒ GAS ⇒ weekly game time | 0.68 | 2.94 | −5.17 | 6.35 | 0.01 | 0.23 | 0.82 | |
| WHO5 ⇒ GAS ⇒ weekly game time | −217.59 | 102.22 | −417.50 | −16.82 | −0.16 | −2.13 | 0.03 | |
| Component | CTS correct ⇒ GAS | −0.01 | 0.01 | −0.03 | 0.02 | −0.07 | −0.61 | 0.54 |
| GAS ⇒ weekly game time | 654.31 | 133.06 | 382.63 | 904.22 | 0.49 | 4.92 | <0.001 | |
| IGT detrimental decks ⇒ GAS | 0.00 | 0.00 | −0.01 | 0.01 | 0.02 | 0.24 | 0.81 | |
| WHO5 ⇒ GAS | −0.33 | 0.15 | −0.62 | −0.05 | −0.32 | −2.28 | 0.02 | |
| Direct | CTS correct ⇒ Weekly game time | 19.58 | 12.30 | −2.79 | 45.41 | 0.14 | 1.59 | 0.11 |
| IGT detrimental decks ⇒ weekly game time | 0.29 | 7.75 | −14.49 | 15.90 | 0.01 | 0.04 | 0.97 | |
| WHO5 ⇒ weekly game time | −160.92 | 174.08 | −486.03 | 196.36 | −0.12 | −0.92 | 0.36 | |
| Total | CTS correct ⇒ weekly game time | 14.57 | 16.94 | −18.63 | 47.77 | 0.10 | 0.86 | 0.39 |
| IGT detrimental decks ⇒ weekly game time | 0.97 | 6.64 | −12.05 | 13.99 | 0.02 | 0.15 | 0.88 | |
| WHO5 ⇒ weekly game time | −378.51 | 167.49 | −706.79 | −50.23 | −0.27 | −2.26 | 0.02 | |
aConfidence intervals computed with method: parametric bootstrap. *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001.