Table 3.
Mediation of the Impact of General Family Functioning on Child Adaptation by Family Management
| Fixed Component | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Difficulty |
Parental Mutuality |
General Family Functioning |
Mothers with Participating Fathers |
Fathers |
Mothers Without Participating Fathers |
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| Slope | p | Slope | p | Slope | p | Intercept | Change in Intercept | p | Adjusted Intercept | Change in Intercept | p | Adjusted Intercept |
| 0.7 | < .01 | – | – | 10.5 | < .01 | 49.6 | 3.5 | .06 | 53.1 | –1.8 | .57 | 47.9 |
| – | – | –1.0 | < .01 | 9.5 | .01 | 105.0 | 4.2 | .03 | 109.2 | –0.1 | .39 | 102.3 |
| 0.6 | < .01 | –0.7 | .02 | 6.1 | .07 | 81.2 | 4.0 | .03 | 85.2 | –0.9 | .44 | 78.9 |
| Random Component | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Mothers |
Fathers |
Intrafamilial Correlation |
|
| SD | SD | Value | p |
| 27.0 | 25.9 | .63 | < .01 |
| 27.5 | 26.6 | .63 | < .01 |
| 26.8 | 25.7 | .64 | < .01 |
Note: Models include general family functioning along with difficulty alone, parental mutuality alone, or both together in that order. Using data from 324 two-parent families, with fathers and mothers participating for 145 families and only mothers for the remaining 179 families.