Table 5. Results of mediation analyses for psychopathy, alexithymia, empathy, and suppression in the forensic and community sample.
| Independent Variable (IV) |
Mediating Variable (M) |
Dependent Variables (DV) |
Sample | Effect of IV on M (a) |
Effect of M on DV (b) |
Direct Effect (c‘) |
Total Effect (c) |
Indirect effect (a)(b) [95% CI] |
Effect size abcs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Psychopathy | Alexithymia | Empathy | Com | .258*** | –.133*** | –.104*** | –.138*** | –.034 [–.061;–.016]*** | –.073*** |
| For | .198** | –.256** | –.062 | –.112** | –.051 [–.106;–.016]* | –.156* | |||
| Suppression | Com | .258*** | .053*** | –.002 | .012* | .014 [.008; .020]*** | .154*** | ||
| For | .198** | .021 | .000 | .005 | .004 [–.001; .014] | .070 |
Com = Community (N = 315); For = Forensic (N = 50). Bias-corrected percentile bootstrap confidence intervals (N = 5000). Maximum likelihood estimator.
*p < .05
**p < .01
***p < .001.