Table 3.

Mediating pathways from emotional dysregulation to disordered eating and self‐harm (imputed sample, n = 6,934)

	Males				Females
	Disordered eating		Self‐harm		Disordered eating		Self‐harm
	Probit B (SE)	% of total	Probit B (SE)	% of total	Probit B (SE)	% of total	Probit B (SE)	% of total
Total effect	0.100 (0.053)		0.102 (0.055)		0.082 (0.034)		0.096 (0.036)
Direct effect	0.076 (0.063)	76.0	0.085 (0.065)	83.3	0.030 (0.039)	36.6	0.069 (0.042)	71.9
Total indirect effect	0.024 (0.034)	24.0	0.016 (0.034)	15.7	0.051 (0.020)	62.2	0.027 (0.022)	28.1
Emotional dysregulation → social cognition → outcome	0.021 (0.033)	21.0	0.009 (0.033)	8.8	0.038 (0.020)	46.3	0.011 (0.022)	11.5
Emotional dysregulation → emotion recognition → outcome	−0.007 (0.004)	−7.0	0.003 (0.004)	2.9	−0.001 (0.001)	−1.2	0.001 (0.002)	1.0
Emotional dysregulation → bullying victimisation → outcome	0.004 (0.003)	4.0	0.002 (0.003)	2.0	0.010 (0.004)	12.2	0.011 (0.005)	11.5
Emotional dysregulation → social cognition → bullying victimisation → outcome	0.005 (0.004)	6.0	0.002 (0.004)	2.0	0.004 (0.002)	4.9	0.004 (0.002)	4.2
Emotional dysregulation → emotion recognition → bullying victimisation → outcome	0.000 (0.000)	0.0	0.000 (0.000)	0.0	0.000 (0.000)	0	0.000 (0.000)	0.0

% of total = percentage of the total effect explained by the pathway. Fully adjusted for all confounders. SE incorporates bootstrapping (1,000 iterations) and pooling across 250 imputed datasets.