TABLE 2.

Bayesian mediation results for family income predicting parental depressive symptoms via material hardship

	Maternal model			Paternal model
	M	SE	95% CI	M	SE	95% CI
Material hardship at 15 months
Family income at 15 monthsa	−0.04	0.02	[−0.07, −0.01]	−0.03	0.02	[−0.07, 0.00]
Fathers’ age	0.00	0.03	[−0.04, 0.05]	0.00	0.03	[−0.04, 0.05]
Mothers’ age	0.01	0.03	[−0.05, 0.06]	−0.01	0.03	[−0.04, 0.06]
Couples’ education level	−0.01	0.02	[−0.05, 0.03]	−0.01	0.02	[−0.05, 0.03]
Couples’ race and ethnicity
Black	0.03	0.03	[−0.03, 0.09]	0.03	0.03	[−0.03, 0.09]
White	0.04	0.02	[−0.01, 0.08]	0.04	0.02	[−0.01, 0.08]
Other	0.03	0.02	[−0.01, 0.07]	0.03	0.02	[−0.01, 0.07]
Couples’ relationship length	−0.01	0.02	[−0.05, 0.03]	−0.01	0.02	[−0.05, 0.03]
Couples’ marital status	0.03	0.02	[−0.01, 0.06]	0.03	0.02	[−0.01, 0.07]
Number of biological children mothers have with BSF fathers	0.04	0.02	[−0.01, 0.08]	0.04	0.02	[−0.01, 0.08]
Fathers’ work status	−0.04	0.02	[−0.07, 0.00]	−0.04	0.02	[−0.07, 0.00]
Mothers’ work status	−0.01	0.02	[−0.03, 0.05]	0.01	0.02	[−0.03, 0.05]
Fathers’ multiple-partner fertility	0.01	0.02	[−0.04, 0.05]	0.00	0.02	[−0.04, 0.04]
Mothers’ multiple-partner fertility	0.04	0.02	[0.00, 0.09]	0.04	0.02	[0.00, 0.09]
Receipt of public welfare	0.01	0.02	[−0.03, 0.06]	0.01	0.02	[−0.03, 0.06]
Fathers’ financial support at 15 months	0.00	0.02	[−0.04, 0.03]	0.00	0.02	[−0.05, 0.04]
Assignment in the BSF program	−0.03	0.02	[−0.07, 0.01]	−0.03	0.02	[−0.07, 0.01]
Location of the BSF program site	0.00	0.02	[−0.04, 0.05]	−0.05	0.02	[−0.09, 0.00]
Intercept	0.00	0.02	[−0.04, 0.04]	0.00	0.02	[−0.04, 0.04]
Parental depressive symptoms at 15 months
Family income at 15 monthsa	0.03	0.02	[−0.01, 0.06]	−0.02	0.02	[−0.05, 0.02]
Material hardship at 15 monthsa	0.11	0.02	[0.08, 0.15]	0.09	0.02	[0.06, 0.13]
Maternal depression at 15 months	—	—	—	0.03	0.02	[−0.01, 0.07]
Paternal depression at 15 months	0.03	0.02	[−0.01, 0.07]	—	—	—
Fathers’ age	0.02	0.02	[−0.03, 0.07]	0.01	0.02	[−0.04, 0.06]
Mothers’ age	−0.02	0.03	[−0.07, 0.04]	−0.02	0.03	[−0.07, 0.03]
Couples’ education level	−0.01	0.02	[−0.05, 0.03]	0.01	0.02	[−0.02, 0.05]
Couples’ race and ethnicity
Black	0.07	0.03	[0.02, 0.12]	0.15	0.03	[0.09, 0.20]
White	0.03	0.02	[−0.01, 0.08]	0.07	0.02	[0.02, 0.11]
Other	0.02	0.02	[−0.02, 0.06]	0.09	0.02	[0.04, 0.13]
Couples’ relationship length	0.02	0.02	[−0.03, 0.06]	−0.01	0.02	[−0.05, 0.03]
Couples’ marital status	0.01	0.02	[−0.03, 0.04]	0.00	0.02	[−0.03, 0.04]
Number of biological children mothers have with BSF fathers	−0.01	0.02	[−0.04, 0.03]	0.05	0.02	[0.01, 0.09]
Fathers’ work status	−0.01	0.02	[−0.05, 0.03]	−0.05	0.02	[−0.08, −0.01]
Mothers’ work status	−0.06	0.02	[−0.09, −0.02]	0.02	0.02	[−0.02, 0.06]
Fathers’ multiple-partner fertility	0.01	0.02	[−0.03, 0.05]	0.04	0.02	[0.00, 0.09]
Mothers’ multiple-partner fertility	0.01	0.02	[−0.03, 0.05]	0.04	0.02	[0.03, 0.09]
Receipt of public welfare	0.03	0.02	[−0.01, 0.07]	0.04	0.02	[0.00, 0.08]
Fathers’ financial support at 15 months	−0.23	0.02	[−0.27, −0.19]	0.14	0.02	[0.10, 0.18]
Assignment in the BSF program	−0.06	0.02	[−0.10, −0.03]	−0.02	0.02	[−0.06, 0.02]
Location of the BSF program site	−0.01	0.02	[−0.05, 0.03]	−0.05	0.02	[−0.09, 0.00]
Intercept	0.00	0.02	[−0.04, 0.03]	0.00	0.02	[−0.04, 0.04]
Indirect effect	−0.004		[−0.009, −0.001]	0.00		[−0.01, 0.00]
Direct effect	0.03		[−0.01, 0.07]	−0.02		[−0.05, 0.02]
Total effect	0.02		[−0.02, 0.06]	−0.02		[−0.06, 0.01]
R2 for material hardship	1.65%		[0.88, 2.55]	1.62%		[0.88, 2.51]
R2 for parental depressive symptoms	9.47%		[7.50, 11.46]	6.40%		[4.82, 8.13]

Note. Bold indicates parameter estimate whose credible interval excludes a 0, suggesting that there is a 95% probability that the estimated value is not equal to 0 and lies within the limits of the credible interval. BSF = Building Strong Families; CI = credible interval.

^aMain predictor variable of interest to the model.