Gender moderates the partial mediation of impulsivity in the relationship between psychiatric distress and problematic online gaming Wenliang Su 1 , Orsolya Király 2 , Zsolt Demetrovics 2§ , Marc N. Potenza 3,4§ 1 Department of Applied Psychology, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, China 2 Institute of Psychology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary, 1064 Budapest, Izabella 3 Department of Psychiatry, Child Study Center, Department of Neuroscience, and the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States Connecticut Mental Health Center, New Haven, CT, United States § Authors contributed equally to the manuscript. *Correspondence: Zsolt Demetrovics Institute of Psychology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University Izabella utca 46, Budapest, 1064 Hungary Tel.: +36 30 9761097 Email: demetrovics.zsolt@ppk.elte.hu 1