Table 4.

Examining the mediational role of 42-month attachment security of the relation between 30-month caregiving quality and 54-month psychopathology symptoms: Regression analyses and bootstrapping results

54-month psychopathology
	Indiscriminately social/disinhibited RAD			Emotionally withdrawn/Inhibited RAD			Stereotypies			Symptoms of Externalizing Disorders			Symptoms of Internalizing Disorders			Functional Impairment
	t	β	p	t	β	p	t	β	p	t	β	p	t	β	p	t	β	p
Child sex	2.16	.19	.03	−.33	−.03	.74	.11	.01	.91	3.02	.27	.00	2.88	.24	.01	2.77	.23	.01
Caregiving Quality	−1.82	−.16	.07	−2.27	−.19	.03	−1.57	−1.40	.12	−1.89	−.17	.06	−2.45	−.22	.02	−2.69	−.24	.00
Attachment Security	−3.71	−.33	.00	−4.66	−.39	.00	−4.35	−.39	.00	−2.17	−.20	.03	−3.00	−.27	.00	−2.89	−.26	.00
Caregiving Quality × Attachment	−.78	.07	.44	2.90	.23	.00	1.02	.09	.31	.11	.01	.91	1.96	.16	.05	1.37	.12	.18
Confidence Intervals1	Lower limits: −.62 Upper limits: −.12			Lower limits: −.80 Upper limits: −.13			Lower limits: −.27 Upper limits:−.06			Lower limits: −.75 Upper limits: −.10			Lower limits: −1.49 Upper Limits: −.16			Lower limits: −1.47 Upper limits: −.22

Note: RAD stands for Reactive Attachment Disorder

¹Bias corrected confidence interval for the indirect effect using the methods of Preacher and Hayes⁴¹