Table 1.
Key demographic features of the study sample.
Table 2.
Distribution of the number of SNS friends and one-way analyses of variance by age group.
Table 3.
Distribution of life satisfaction and perceived social support and one-way analyses of variance by the number of SNS friends.
Table 4.
Regression analysis (Model 0): Estimated associations of the number of SNS friends with life-satisfaction and perceived social supporta.
Table 5.
Structural equation modeling analysis (Models 1 and 2): Estimated associations between the number of SNS friends, perceived social support, and life satisfaction.
Table 6.
Estimated effects of SNS use on life satisfaction, mediated and not mediated by perceived social support, based on Models 1 and 2.
Fig 1.
Association between the number of SNS friends and life satisfaction, mediated and not mediated by perceived social support.
Table 7.
Structural equation modeling analysis (Models 1 and 2): Estimated associations between the number of SNS friends, perceived social support, and life satisfaction [without controlling for covariates].
Table 8.
Estimated effects of SNS use on life satisfaction mediated and not mediated by perceived social support, based on Models 1 and 2 [without controlling for covariates].
Table 9.
Structural equation modeling analysis (Models 1 and 2): Estimated associations between the number of SNS friends, perceived social support, and life satisfaction [using a continuous variable of the number of SNS friends]a.
Table 10.
Estimated effects of SNS use on life satisfaction mediated and not mediated by perceived social support, based on Models 1 and 2 [using a continuous variable of the number of SNS friends].