Table 2.

Testing the mediation effect of in-game social interaction on gaming disorder.

	Model 1 (gaming disorder)		Model 2 (online social capital)		Model 3 (gaming disorder)
	β	t	β	t	β	t
Gender	0.03	0.34	0.05	0.53	0.02	0.14
Age	−0.02	−0.48	−0.03	−0.88	−0.01	−0.14
In-game social interaction	0.17	4.25**	0.39	8.04**	0.02	0.41
Online social capital					0.42	9.31**
R2	0.18		0.39		0.43
F	6.23**		23.62**		25.76**

Gender was dummy coded such that 0 = female and 1 = male.

^*p < 0.05;

^**p < 0.01.