A partial mediation effect of father-child attachment and self-esteem between parental marital conflict and subsequent features of internet gaming disorder in children: a 12-month follow-up study

Table 6 Total, direct, and indirect effects in the final structural equation model

Pathways in the final structural equation model	Total effect	Direct effect	Indirect effect
Parent marital conflict ➔ attachment ➔ self-esteem ➔ Increases in IGD features	0.301^***
Parent marital conflict ➔ Increases in IGD		0.201^***
Parent marital conflict ➔ attachment to father ➔ self-esteem ➔ Increases in IGD			0.076^*
Parent marital conflict ➔ attachment to mother ➔ self-esteem ➔ Increases in IGD			0.026

^*P < 0.05, ^**P < 0.01, ^***P < 0.001; all P values calculated using the bias-corrected bootstrap procedure

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