. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Apr 12.

Published in final edited form as: Merrill Palmer Q (Wayne State Univ Press). 2009 Jul;55(3):224–249. doi: 10.1353/mpq.0.0030

Table 3.

Predicting Adult Occupational Prestige: Standardized Direct, Mediated, and Total Effects of Age 8 Predictor Variables on Age 48 Occupational Status for the Model in Figure 2

Predictor variable at age 8	Combined mediated effects 8->48	Direct effect 8->48	Total effect 8->48
Parent Ed. Level	.07	.04	.11^*
Father’s Occ.	−.01	.11^*	.10⁺
Value Housing	.06	−.11^*	−.05
Neg. Family Int.	−.04	−.07	−.11^*
Child IQ	.10	.19^***	.29^***
Child Agg.	−.03	−.10^*	−.13^***

Note. Ed. = educational; Occ. = occupational. Significance of individual mediated effects is noted in Figure 2. Combined mediation effect is in bold if any one mediated path to age 48 is significant.

⁺

p<.10.

p < .05.

^**

p < .01.

^***

p < .001.