Mediation model depicting that the actor and partner effects of relationship awareness on intimacy are mediated by actor effects in relationship communication. PT denotes patient-reported variables and SP denotes spouse/partner-reported variables.
Note. Although not shown, the residuals across all of eight mediator variables were allowed to correlate with one another, as were patient and spouse relationship awareness. Solid lines represent actor effects and dashed lines represent partner effects. Parameters shown are standardized path coefficients