In addition, even
the significant mediational pathway through TNF methylation did not account for the majority of health related effects of protective parenting during late childhood and early adolescence.
Not exact matches
the three
mediational pathways tested were
significant) in comparison to interparental hostility
Holmbeck, G.N. (2002) Post-Hoc Probing of
Significant Moderational and
Mediational Effects in Studies of Pediatric Populations.
The full multiplicative
mediational path from gender to empathy to support to growth was
significant, but this finding was largely driven by the strong
mediational effect of empathy.
A
mediational model9 requires that the
significant effect of the intervention on later psychopathology should become nonsignificant once the putative mediator is entered into the model.
First, associations between depression and cortisol in pregnancy were not found in one large population based cohort study20 and may only be
significant in the presence of antidepressant medication21 or co-morbid anxiety.22 Second, studies that tested either direct associations between antenatal maternal cortisol levels on infant or child outcomes or the
mediational role of antenatal cortisol in associations between antenatal depression and outcomes yield mixed findings and typically have relied on small samples.23 Postpartum depression has been associated with a range of problems in infants» and young children's development.
Given the lack of
significant findings for main effects or interactions relevant to our
mediational models, we removed these terms from our successive analyses.
For each hypothesized mediator, we assessed what percentage of the total SES effect it mediated and whether this
mediational effect was
significant.
The reported indirect effect remained
significant, providing support for the
mediational role of enjoyment of collaboration in the relationship between shared selves and well - being.
However, the
mediational effect of maternal warmth, though
significant, was modest.
We found two differences contributing to the group differences in
mediational models: 1) there was a
significant association between maternal depressive symptoms and child emotion regulation among European American families (r = 0.28, p < 0.01), but not among African American families (r = 0.12, n.s.), and 2) there was a
significant correlation between maternal warmth and child peer relations among European Americans (r = 0.24, p < 0.05, but not African Americans (r = 0.14, n.s.).