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Table 4 Mediating role of ADHD on the associations of personality traits with Internet addiction

From: Associations of personality traits with internet addiction in Chinese medical students: the mediating role of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder symptoms

Predictors

Path coefficients

a * b (95% CI)

c

a

b

c’

Extraversion

−0.001

0.082**

0.318**

− 0.027

0.026 (0.007, 0.048)

Agreeableness

−0.123**

−0.129**

0.318**

−0.082**

− 0.041 (− 0.063, − 0.022)

Conscientiousness

−0.317**

− 0.269**

0.318**

− 0.231**

−0.085 (− 0.110, − 0.066)

Neuroticism

0.163**

0.214**

0.318**

0.095**

0.068 (0.047, 0.093)

Openness

0.012

−0.009

0.318**

0.015

−0.003 (− 0.022, 0.017)

  1. c: associations of personality traits with Internet addiction; a: associations of personality traits with ADHD symptoms; b: associations of ADHD symptoms with Internet addiction after controlling for the predictor variables; c’: associations of personality traits with Internet addiction after adding ADHD symptoms as mediator; a * b: the product of a and b; 95% CI: the bias-corrected and accelerated 95% confidence interval
  2. Gender, age group, hometown, and grade year were covariates. ** p < 0.01(two-tailed)
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BMC Psychiatry

ISSN: 1471-244X

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