Conquering Gender Stereotype Threat in “Digit Sports”: Effects of Gender Swapping on Female Players’ Continuous Participation Intention in ESports

Table 2

Results of simple mediation analysis (process model 4).

(a) Result of simple mediation analysis
Outcome	SEF				CPI
Predictor	β(SE)		95% CI lower	95% CI upper	β(SE)		95% CI lower	95% CI upper
GS	0.11 (0.036)	<0.005	0.043	0.18	0.016(0.035)	0.066	−0.053	0.084
SEF	—	—	—	—	0.46 (0.045)	<0.001	0.38	0.55
(b) Result of the indirect effect
GS⟶SEF⟶CPI						Effect (SE)	95% CI lower	95% CI upper
						0.052 (0.021)	0.014	0.096

Note. GS = gender-swapping, SEF = self-efficacy, CPI = continuous participation intention, SE = standard error.