Social media ostracism and creativity: moderating role of emotional intelligence

BMC Psychology

Table 4 Mediation effects

IV	M	DV	IV→DV	IV→M	IV + M→DV IV→DV	M→DV
Social media ostracism	Rumination	Employee creativity	-0.16***	0.19***	-0.13***	-0.20***	Partial mediation
Social media ostracism	Psychology safety	Employee creativity	-0.16***	-0.21***	-0.12**	0.22***	Partial mediation

Note: Three step medthod is used to test mediation effect. Step 1: IV→M is significant. Step 2: IV→DV is significant. Step 3: IV + M→DV. (1) M has full mediation effect if IV is non-significance and M is significance. (2) If both IV and M are significance, then M has partial mediation effect

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