Sample descriptive statistics
| Variable | Mean | SD | Min | Max | N |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Social media outcomes | 303 | ||||
| Average change on internet use | 0.545 | ||||
| Average change on Instagram purchase intention | 0.394 | ||||
| Average change on Facebook purchase intention | 0.253 | ||||
| Pandemic behavioral outcomes | |||||
| Loneliness index* | 66.277 | 9.807 | 30 | 80 | 303 |
| Personality traits | |||||
| Openness | 3.568 | 0.523 | 1.7 | 4.8 | 303 |
| Conscientiousness | 3.458 | 0.557 | 2 | 4.9 | 303 |
| Extraversion | 3.174 | 0.604 | 1.25 | 4.75 | 303 |
| Agreeableness | 3.695 | 0.482 | 2.33 | 5 | 303 |
| Neuroticism | 2.842 | 0.647 | 1.125 | 5 | 303 |
| Social cognitive theory | |||||
| Resilience | 3.36 | 1.07 | 2.16 | 4.43 | 303 |
| Vulnerability | 2.97 | 1.13 | 2.02 | 4.23 | 303 |
| Demographic and social economic attributes | |||||
| Female (0/1) | 0.571 | 0.496 | 0 | 1 | 173 |
| Age | 16.05 | 1.341 | 14 | 17 | 303 |
| School Grades** | 17.855 | 1.605 | 12.5 | 20 | 303 |
| FAS Index*** | 12.069 | 1.862 | 5 | 18 | 303 |
| Single child family | 0.089 | 0.285 | 0 | 1 | 303 |
| Family type | |||||
| Both parents | 0.818 | 248 | |||
| Single mother | 0.132 | 40 | |||
| Single father | 0.030 | 9 | |||
| Other relative | 0.020 | 6 | |||
| Family area type | |||||
| Rural | 0.162 | 49 | |||
| Suburban | 0.297 | 90 | |||
| Urban | 0.541 | 164 |
| Variable | Mean | SD | Min | Max | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 303 | |||||
| Average change on internet use | 0.545 | ||||
| Average change on Instagram purchase intention | 0.394 | ||||
| Average change on Facebook purchase intention | 0.253 | ||||
| Loneliness index | 66.277 | 9.807 | 30 | 80 | 303 |
| Openness | 3.568 | 0.523 | 1.7 | 4.8 | 303 |
| Conscientiousness | 3.458 | 0.557 | 2 | 4.9 | 303 |
| Extraversion | 3.174 | 0.604 | 1.25 | 4.75 | 303 |
| Agreeableness | 3.695 | 0.482 | 2.33 | 5 | 303 |
| Neuroticism | 2.842 | 0.647 | 1.125 | 5 | 303 |
| Resilience | 3.36 | 1.07 | 2.16 | 4.43 | 303 |
| Vulnerability | 2.97 | 1.13 | 2.02 | 4.23 | 303 |
| Female (0/1) | 0.571 | 0.496 | 0 | 1 | 173 |
| Age | 16.05 | 1.341 | 14 | 17 | 303 |
| School Grades | 17.855 | 1.605 | 12.5 | 20 | 303 |
| FAS Index | 12.069 | 1.862 | 5 | 18 | 303 |
| Single child family | 0.089 | 0.285 | 0 | 1 | 303 |
| Both parents | 0.818 | 248 | |||
| Single mother | 0.132 | 40 | |||
| Single father | 0.030 | 9 | |||
| Other relative | 0.020 | 6 | |||
| Rural | 0.162 | 49 | |||
| Suburban | 0.297 | 90 | |||
| Urban | 0.541 | 164 |
Notes:
*In our analysis, we divided the sample to two groups of loneliness (high vs low) by having the median split of the original variable, **In our analysis we used the high grade variable which contain students with grades above the average (median split), ***In our analysis we used the high FAS index variable which contain subjects with social economic index above the average (median split)
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