Table 3.

Testing the moderated mediation effect of social media exposure, psychological distress, and expressive suppression on depression.

	Psychological distress			Depression
	β	SE	t	β	SE	t
Social media exposure	0.24	0.04	5.43**	−0.04	0.04	−0.87
Psychological distress (PD)				0.43	0.04	10.12**
Expressive suppression (ES)				0.08	0.04	1.87
PD × ES				0.10	0.04	2.41*
R2	0.06			0.22
F	29.47**			33.82**

N = 485. The beta values are standardized coefficients.

^*p < 0.05,

^**p < 0.01.