Relationship between time spent playing internet gaming apps and behavioral problems, sleep problems, alexithymia, and emotion dysregulations in children: a multicentre study

Table 5 univariate linear Regression model between hours of internet gaming apps and other parameters

Variables	B	Std. Error	Beta	t	P value	95.0% Confidence Interval
Variables	B	Std. Error	Beta	t	P value	Lower Bound	Upper Bound
Age	0.053	0.031	0.072	1.717	0.08	− 0.008	0.114
Gender	− 0.102	0.17	− 0.02	− 0.57	0.56	− 0.45	0.24
Number of devices	1.29	0.124	0.402	10.4	0.0001*	1.04	1.53
Total score of socioeconomic scale	− 0.003	0.003	− 0.055	− 1.3	0.19	− 0.009	− 0.002
The Children’s Alexithymia Measure (CAM)	0.009	0.009	0.044	1.033	0.302	− 0.009	0.027
The Clinical Evaluation of Emotional Regulation–9	0.032	0.014	0.094	2.24	0.025*	0.004	0.06
Total nighttime sleep duration	− 0.074	0.057	− 0.055	− 1.309	0.19	− 1.18	0.037
Total daytime sleep duration	− 0.003	0.002	− 0.073	− 1.74	0.082	− 0.007	0.001
Total sleep duration (day and night)	− 0.148	0.064	− 0.097	− 2.31	0.021*	− 0.273	− 0.022
Total bedtime	− 0.018	0.019	− 0.04	− 0.940	0.348	− 0.056	0.020
Total sleep behavior	− 0.003	0.01	− 0.011	− 0.261	0.794	− 0.022	0.017
Total waking during the night	0.028	0.05	0.023	0.557	0.578	− 0.071	0.127
Total morning wakes up	0.084	0.03	0.118	2.82	0.005*	0.026	0.142
Total Score of scale	0.001	0.007	0.009	− 0.210	0.833	− 0.012	0.015
Emotional symptoms scale	0.115	0.036	0.133	3.18	0.002*	0.044	0.186
Conduct symptoms scale	0.172	0.051	0.14	3.34	0.001*	0.071	0.273
Hyperactivity scale	0.074	0.030	0.102	2.44	0.015*	0.014	0.133
Peer problems scale	0.125	0.044	0.120	2.86	0.004*	0.039	0.211
Prosocial scale	− 0.034	0.038	− 0.037	− 0.886	0.37	− 0.11	0.041
The total difficulties scale	0.059	0.015	0.169	4.06	0.001*	0.031	0.088

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