Table 3.

Testing the moderated mediation effects 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	−0.01	−0.12	0.02	0.43	−0.02	−0.35
Age	−0.03	−0.69	−0.04	−0.95	−0.01	−0.30
In-game social interaction	0.18	4.47**	0.39	9.33**	0.08	2.24
Alienation	0.48	11.92**	0.04	1.01	0.49	14.44**
In-game social interaction × alienation	0.07	1.87	0.06	1.45	0.01	0.23
Online social capital					0.34	8.87**
Online social capital × alienation					0.31	8.49**
R2	0.27		0.18		0.47
F	34.59**		20.35**		59.20**

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

^*p < 0.05;

^**p < 0.01.