Gender-based differences in interaction effects between childhood maltreatment and problematic mobile phone use on college students’ depression and anxiety symptoms

Table 3 Multinominal logistic regression of interactions between CM or PMPU and gender on depression and anxiety

Variables	Depression only^a			Anxiety only^a			Depression and Anxiety^a
Variables	OR	95% CI	P-value	OR	95% CI	P-value	OR	95% CI	P-value
CM*gender
yes*female	1.00			1.00			1.00
no*male	0.418	0.271–0.644	< 0.001	0.672	0.469–0.961	0.030	0.246	0.143–0.424	< 0.001
*yesmale**	1.300	1.075–1.573	0.007	1.005	0.815–1.239	0.965	1.181	0.968–1.440	0.101
no*female	0.376	0.295–0.478	< 0.001	0.739	0.607–0.899	0.003	0.237	0.177–0.317	< 0.001
PMPU*gender
yes*female	1.00			1.00			1.00
no*male	0.613	0.480–0.782	< 0.001	0.204	0.157–0.263	< 0.001	0.138	0.104–0.182	< 0.001
*yesmale**	1.096	0.786–1.529	0.587	1.053	0.798–1.389	0.717	1.280	0.988–1.659	0.062
no*female	0.450	0.367–0.553	< 0.001	0.220	0.183–0.264	< 0.001	0.137	0.113–0.167	< 0.001

a: Adjusting for grade, gender, residential area, only child or not, perceived family economic status, number of close friends
CM: Childhood maltreatment
PMPU: Problematic mobile phone use

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