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 Descriptive statistics of study variables by gender.

VariableGendernMSD
Social media ruminationTotal44745.9519.88
Men16741.3418.65
Women28048.7020.11
DepressionTotal4477.766.28
Men1675.695.84
Women2808.996.22
AnxietyTotal4477.505.89
Men1675.255.21
Women2808.845.87
Self-esteemTotal44714.704.04
Men16715.164.2
Women28014.423.92

n: number of participants; M: mean; SD: standard deviation. The final analytic sample included 447 participants after excluding those with missing data and focusing on binary gender comparisons.