Why mobile social media-related fear of missing out promotes depressive symptoms? the roles of phubbing and social exclusion

Table 3 Testing the research hypothesis model

Outcome	Predictors	R ²	F	β	t	95% CI
Phubbing		0.45	128.40^***
	Gender			– 0.04	0.68	[–0.18, 0.10]
	Daily cell phone use			0.07	5.30^***	[0.04, 0.10]
	MSM-related FoMO			0.59	17.08^***	[0.53, 0.67]
Depressive symptoms		0.24	24.96^***
	Gender			– 0.05	– 0.02	[–0.18, 0.16]
	Daily cell phone use			0.04	3.79	[–0.01, 0.05]
	Phubbing			0.31	5.66^***	[0.20, 0.42]
	Social exclusion			0.15	3.73^**	[0.07, 0.24]
	MSM-related FoMO			0.11	2.02^*	[0.01, 0.21]
	MSM-related FoMO × Social exclusion			0.10	2.92^**	[0.04, 0.17]

Note: Gender is a dummy variable (0 = male, 1 = female), ^*p < 0.05, ^**p < 0.01, ^***p < 0.001.

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