Table 3 Regression model revealing the relationship between social media reactions and comments with wellbeing outcomes within Facebook dataset of life event disclosures; (* \(p<\)0.05, ** \(p<\)0.01, *** \(p<\)0.001).

From: Mental wellbeing effects of disclosing life events on social media

Dep. variables \(\rightarrow\)

P. affect

N. affect

Stress

Anxiety

Sleep

Indep. variables \(\downarrow\)

Coeff.

Coeff.

Coeff.

Coeff.

Coeff.

Intercept

2.68*

2.72*

− 0.51

0.30

3.59***

Demographics

 Gender: male

0.27

0.43***

0.16***

0.09*

− 0.10

 Age

0.01

5.8E−3

− 6.8E−3*

4.6E−3*

− 0.01**

Cognitive ability: Shipley

 Abstraction

− 4.0E−3

− 0.08***

− 1.1E−3

− 0.01***

− 0.03***

 Vocabulary

0.08***

− 8.9E−3*

0.04***

0.09***

 

Personality traits: BFI

 Openness

− 8.5E−3

0.08*

− 0.04

− 0.04*

0.21***

 Conscientiousness

− 1.09***

0.48***

− 0.06*

0.05*

0.19***

 Extraversion

0.46***

0.31***

0.01

− 0.02

− 0.07

 Agreeableness

− 0.57***

− 0.85***

− 0.08*

− 0.20***

0.33***

 Neuroticism

0.80**

− 0.31**

0.19***

0.07*

− 0.12

Trait affect (PANAS)

 Trait Pos. affect

0.30***

1.2E−3

− 0.02***

0.01***

− 0.04***

 Trait Neg. affect

− 0.04

0.13***

0.02**

0.02***

− 0.01

Trait anxiety (STAI)

 Trait anxiety (STAI)

− 3.3E−3

0.06***

0.07*

0.02***

0.02*

Trait Sleep Quality (PSQI)

 Trait Sleep Quality (PSQI)

− 0.16***

0.12***

0.07

6.5E−3

− 0.12***

Life event attributes

 Type: Health

0.60

1.11 **

0.29*

0.19

− 0.86***

 Type: Local

− 1.38**

− 1.10***

− 0.15

− 0.22

− 0.19

 Type: Personal

− 0.33

− 1.01**

− 0.35**

− 0.33***

− 0.52**

 Type: School

0.15

− 0.63

0.13*

0.01

− 0.09*

 Type: Work

− 0.73

− 0.93*

− 0.20

− 0.30**

− 0.26

 Anticipation: Anticipated

0.07**

− 0.43***

− 0.07*

− 0.06***

0.28***

 Valence

0.07***

− 0.14**

0.02

− 0.04***

0.01

 Intimacy

0.13

− 0.06

− 0.05*

0.03

− 0.14**

 Status: Continuous

0.03

0.54*

− 0.02

− 0.02

− 0.31***

 Scope

− 0.17

0.10

0.08

0.08*

0.32***

 Significance

0.79*

− 0.36*

− 0.15*

− 0.02

− 0.81***

Social media engagement

 No. reactions

0.01*

− 1.7E−3**

− 1.7E−3*

− 1.0E−4*

− 6.0E−4

 No. comments

3.4E−3*

2.3E−3

2.3E−3

− 1.0E−4*

4.2E−3*

 

\(\mathtt {R^2}\)=0.35***

\(\mathtt {R^2}\)=0.60***

\(\mathtt {R^2}\)=0.45***

\(\mathtt {R^2}\)=0.44***

\(\mathtt {R^2}\)=0.26***

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