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Table 2 The Impact of Internet Use Frequency on the Prevalence of NSSI Behavior Among adolescents by Gender

From: The impact of internet use frequency on non-suicidal self injurious behavior and suicidal ideation among Chinese adolescents: an empirical study based on gender perspective

Dependent: whether NSSI behavior occurs (reference: No)

Males

Females

Model 1

Model 2

Model 3

Model 4

Independent Variable: Internet use frequency

IM softwares

0.054

0.985

0.912

1.024

Social softwares

0.786*

1.012**

0.993***

1.025***

Video softwares

1.034

1.055

0.972

0.860

Shopping softwares

0.985

−0.900

1.139

1.016

Knowledge sharing softwares

−1.091**

− 1.097***

0.994

0.984

Online gaming

0.927

1.840

1.307

0.950

Control variables

Age

 

1.030

 

−0.886

Only-child (reference: No)

 

−0.746**

 

−1.117*

Father’s educational level (reference:primary school and below) middle school or above

 

−0.793

 

−1.125

Mother’s educational level (reference:primary school and below) middle school or above

 

−1.279

 

−1.089

Parents’ marital status (reference:separated) Married

 

−0.762***

 

−0.969**

95% CI

 

0.73, 0.86**

0.84, 1.05**

1.22, 0.94**

1.30,1.10**

−2 Log Likelihood

 

607.07**

591.36***

787.32***

845.21***

Cox & Snell R2

 

0.003

0.023

0.002

0.025

Nagelkerke R2

 

0.005

0.037

0.004

0.040

  1. Note. + p < 0.1;*p < 0.05;**p < 0.01;***p < 0.001