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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Dec 21.
Published in final edited form as: Technol Mind Behav. 2022 Feb 17;3(1):10.1037/tmb0000062. doi: 10.1037/tmb0000062

Table 3.

Changes in Social Technology Behaviors and Wellbeing Between Time 1 and Time 2

Predictors Loneliness Coping while stress Depression Social anxiety
Estimates CI p Estimates CI p Estimates CI p Estimates CI p
(Intercept) 0.94 [0.50 to 1.37] <.001 2.33 [1.77 to 2.90] <.001 0.29 [−0.13 to 0.71] .175 1.95 [1.25 to 2.65] <.001
Time −0.06 [−0.28 to 0.16] .607 0.23 [−0.06 to 0.52] .124 −0.22 [−0.43 to −0.01] .036 0.07 [−0.28 to 0.42] .686
Problematic internet 0.25 [0.13 to 0.37] <.001 0.21 [0.05 to 0.37] .009 0.16 [0.04 to 0.27] .007 0.26 [0.06 to 0.45] .009
Online support 0.09 [−0.02 to 0.20] .093 −0.13 [−0.28 to 0.01] .061 0.05 [−0.05 to 0.15] .368 0.15 [−0.02 to 0.32] .085
Positive media −0.06 [−0.17 to 0.06] .311 0.31 [0.16 to 0.46] <.001 −0.11 [−0.22 to 0.00] .053 −0.06 [−0.24 to 0.12] .512
Check social media −0.01 [−0.06 to 0.05] .827 −0.03 [−0.10 to 0.04] .386 −0.01 [−0.05 to 0.04] .811 −0.03 [−0.11 to 0.06] .537
Sleep behaviors 0.00 [−0.10 to 0.10] .961 −0.08 [−0.22 to 0.05] .207 0.11 [0.01 to 0.20] .024 −0.08 [−0.24 to 0.08] .344
Time × Prob 0.02 [−0.06 to 0.09] .661 −0.14 [−0.24 to −0.05] .003 0.10 [0.03 to 0.17] .004 0.02 [−0.10 to 0.13] .787
Time × Online −0.02 [−0.09 to 0.04] .498 0.15 [0.06 to 0.24] .001 0.00 [−0.06 to 0.06] .975 −0.04 [−0.15 to 0.07] .480
Time × Positive 0.07 [−0.01 to 0.14] .084 −0.13 [−0.23 to −0.03] .012 0.11 [0.04 to 0.18] .002 0.04 [−0.07 to 0.16] .463
Time × Check −0.01 [−0.04 to 0.02] .559 0.01 [−0.03 to 0.06] .606 −0.01 [−0.04 to 0.03] .744 −0.01 [−0.07 to 0.04] .615
Time × Sleep 0.01 [−0.05 to 0.08] .678 0.04 [−0.04 to 0.13] .286 −0.04 [−0.10 to 0.02] .202 0.04 [−0.06 to 0.14] .410
Age 0.00 [−0.02 to 0.02] .799 −0.03 [−0.05 to 0.00] .054 0.00 [−0.02 to 0.02] .898 0.00 [−0.03 to 0.04] .824
Gender 0.09 [0.03 to 0.16] .002 −0.04 [−0.12 to 0.03] .266 0.13 [0.08 to 0.19] <.001 0.25 [0.15 to 0.35] <.001
Mother’s education −0.04 [−0.06 to −0.01] .006 0.06 [0.02 to 0.09] .001 −0.04 [−0.06 to −0.01] .004 −0.07 [−0.11 to −0.03] .001
Two parent household −0.01 [−0.08 to 0.06] .805 0.09 [0.00 to 0.18] .046 −0.05 [−0.12 to 0.01] .104 0.00 [−0.11 to 0.11] .986
Black 0.21 [0.10 to 0.33] <.001 −0.10 [−0.25 to 0.05] .176 0.15 [0.04 to 0.26] .009 0.11 [−0.08 to 0.30] .254
Asian 0.13 [0.01 to 0.25] .035 −0.08 [−0.24 to 0.07] .283 0.09 [−0.03 to 0.21] .126 −0.01 [−0.20 to 0.19] .956
Latinx 0.06 [−0.02 to 0.15] .158 −0.05 [−0.16 to 0.06] .398 0.06 [−0.02 to 0.15] .138 0.03 [−0.12 to 0.17] .713
Other race 0.02 [−0.06 to 0.09] .637 −0.06 [−0.15 to 0.04] .255 0.09 [0.01 to 0.16] .019 −0.03 [−0.15 to 0.09] .603
Random effects
 σ2 0.14 0.26 0.12 0.34
 τ00 0.10trackid 0.10trackid 0.09trackid 0.28trackid
 ICC 0.41 0.28 0.43 0.45
N 986trackid 958trackid 981trackid 987trackid
 Observations 1353.00 1307.00 1347.00 1355.00
 Marginal R2/conditional R2 0.250/0.560 0.094/0.350 0.351/0.631 0.148/0.529