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Table 3 Latent variable structure, direct effects, and covariances the final LIWC withdrawal management SEM model

From: Analysis of associations between emotions and activities of drug users and their addiction recovery tendencies from social media posts using structural equation modeling

Relationships between variables

Estimate

Standardized estimate

Standard error

Z value

P value

Latent variables

 Emotional distress—> 

Negative emotion

1.000

0.755

–

–

–

 Emotional distress—> 

Feel

0.197

0.147

0.017

11.2

0.000

 Emotional distress—> 

Anger

1.136

0.849

0.019

60.7

0.000

 Emotional distress—> 

Authentic

0.313

0.232

0.018

17.2

0.000

 Emotional distress—> 

Sexual

0.998

0.740

0.024

41.6

0.000

 Emotional distress—> 

Sad

0.262

0.195

0.016

16.3

0.000

 Emotional distress—> 

Affect

0.547

0.406

0.016

33.9

0.000

 Emotional distress—> 

Anxiety

0.063

0.047

0.017

3.6

0.000

 Emotional distress—> 

Swear

1.127

0.836

0.021

52.9

0.000

 Physical distress—> 

Health

1.000

0.249

–

–

–

 Physical distress—> 

Bio

3.079

0.755

0.152

20.2

0.000

 Physical distress—> 

Death

0.731

0.179

0.068

10.7

0.000

 Physical distress—> 

Body

2.899

0.720

0.171

16.9

0.000

Regressions

 Emotional distress—> 

Recovery

0.153

0.113

0.027

5.6

0.000

 Physical pain- > 

Recovery

0.213

0.052

0.088

2.4

0.000

Correlations

 Negative emotion

Anxiety

0.474

0.744

0.010

47.6

0.000

 Negative emotion

Sad

0.366

0.583

0.009

38.8

0.000

 Negative emotion

Affect

0.335

0.570

0.011

31.6

0.000

 Negative emotion

Anger

0.060

0.179

0.005

11.5

0.000

 Negative emotion

Feel

0.107

0.168

0.006

16.5

0.000

 Negative emotion

Sexual

− 0.059

− 0.136

0.007

− 8.8

0.000

 Negative emotion

Authentic

− 005

− 0.008

0.005

− 1.133

0.257

 Sexual

Swear

0.160

0.434

0.012

13.3

0.000

 Affect

Anxiety

0.317

0.351

0.011

29.0

0.000

 Sad

Affect

0.277

0.311

0.011

25.8

0.000

 Health

Bio

0.418

0.669

0.011

37.7

0.00

 Authentic

Feel

0.284

0.297

0.011

18.6

0.000

 Sad

Anxiety

0.218

0.226

0.012

18.6

0.000

 Affect

Feel

0.145

0.162

0.009

15.7

0.000

 Affect

Anger

0.114

0.237

0.008

14.7

0.000

 Anger

Swear

0.179

0.622

0.008

21.5

0.000

 Anxiety

Feel

0.104

0.107

0.010

10.0

0.000

 Anger

Sexual

0.090

0.254

0.011

8.0

0.000

 Affect

Swear

0.065

0.130

0.007

9.665

0.000

 Authentic

Swear

0.017

0.032

0.005

3.682

0.000

 Negative emotion

Health

0.182

0.296

0.006

31.6

0.000

 Anxiety

Health

0.153

0.162

0.008

18.1

0.000

 Sad

Health

0.139

0.49

0.008

16.4

0.000

 Feel

Body

0.181

0.270

0.009

20.6

0.000

 Anger

Death

0.072

0.139

0.004

16.5

0.000

 Emotional distress

Physical pain

0.123

0.675

0.008

15.2

0.000

  1. The symbol ‘—> ’ is used to represent a path or direct effect in our SEM model. Both emotional distress and physical pain positively impacted adiction recovery behavior