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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Child Fam Stud. 2013 Feb 15;23(2):285–292. doi: 10.1007/s10826-013-9720-7

Table 2.

Psychological Symptoms Mediating Witnessing Verbal Interparental Aggression (VIPA) and Sexual Among African American Youth (N =563)

Dependent
variable
(DV)		 Psychological
symptoms (Psy)		 Independent
Variable
(IV)		 Effect
of IV on
Psy1 		Effect
of Psy
on
DV2,3 		Indirect
effect
Point
Estimate
(95% CI)
Sexual Moderate
Activity PTSD Symptoms VIPA 0.96 0.02 0.02 (−0.01, 0.15)
Withdrawal/Depression 0.04 −0.06 −0.003 (−0.08, 0.05)
Anxiety/Depression 0.93* −0.08† −0.08 (−0.25, 0.001)
Aggression 1.56** 0.13** 0.20 (0.07, 0.39)*
Total 0.14 (−0.02, 0.34)
Sexual High VIPA
Activity PTSD Symptoms 2.06* 0.02 0.05 (−0.03, 0.23)
Withdrawal/Depression 0.71* −0.06 −0.05 (−0.08, 0.02)
Anxiety/Depression 1.53** −0.08† −0.12 (−0.34, 0.01)
Aggression 3.58** 0.13** 0.45 (0.26, 0.74)*
Total 0.33 (0.12, 0.62)*
**

p<0.01;

*

p<0.05;

†

p<0.10

1

Effect of independent variable on psychological symptoms controlling for age and gender

2

Effect of psychological symptoms on dependent variable

3

Controlling for the 2 dummy variables for VIPA, age, and gender