The relationship between internet gaming disorder and psychotic experiences: cyberbullying and insomnia severity as mediators

Table 4 Mediation analyses results, taking the internet gaming disorder as the independent variable, insomnia severity/cyber-victimization/cyberbullying as mediators and paranoid ideation/psychoticism as dependent variables

	Direct effect			Indirect effect
	Beta	SE	P	Beta	Boot SE	Boot CI
Model 1: Paranoid ideation as the dependent variable.
Insomnia severity	0.02	0.01	0.112	0.004	0.002	0.0003; 0.008*
Cyberbullying	0.02	0.01	0.112	0.003	0.002	− 0.0002; 0.007
Cyber-victimization	0.02	0.01	0.112	< 0.001	0.0001	− 0.001; 0.001
Model 2: Psychoticism as the dependent variable.
Insomnia severity	0.07	0.01	< 0.001	0.003	0.002	− 0.001; 0.008
Cyberbullying	0.07	0.01	< 0.001	0.005	0.002	0.001; 0.010*
Cyber-victimization	0.07	0.01	< 0.001	− 0.0001	0.001	− 0.003; 0.002

Model 1: Family history of psychiatric illness, time spent on the internet per day, time spent on gaming, depress, anxiety and stress
Model 2: Cigarette smoking, Family history of psychiatric illness, time spent on the internet per day, time spent on gaming, depress, anxiety and stress
*indicates significant mediation; results were adjusted over variables that showed a significant p value after Bonferroni correction

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