Research Article

Self-Presentation and Adolescent Altruistic Behaviors in Social Networks

Table 3

Regression results of intermediary effects of social ability cognition.

VariablesEquation (11), altruistic behaviorsEquation (12), social ability cognitionEquation (13), altruistic behaviors

Constant0.169 (0.698)0.475 (1.858)−0.100 (-0.513)
Age−0.008 (−0.533)−0.036∗∗ (−2.179)0.012 (0.956)
Gender−0.031 (−0.571)0.020 (0.354)−0.042 (−0.975)
Weekly online time−0.016 (−0.547)0.022 (0.703)−0.029 (−1.204)
Self-presentation0.808− (30.089)0.780∗∗ (27.472)0.369∗∗∗ (10.682)
Social ability cognition0.565∗∗∗ (16.50)
Adj-R20.6510.6130.778

t value is in parentheses. Symbols ∗,∗∗and ∗∗∗indicate that the coefficient is significant at 10%, 5%, and 1% levels.