Table 3.

Indirect Effects of Proposed Intervening Variables Linking Early Mother Attitudes to Later Youth Attitudes.

Intervening Variable	Appropriate Expectations	Empathy	Rejection of Punishment	Roles
Specific Effects	Point estimate (CI)	Point estimate (CI)	Point estimate (CI)	Point estimate (CI)
Physical Abuse	−.0001 [−.0109, .0082]	−.0008 [−.0162, .0037]	.0064 [−.0020, .0330]	−.0019 [−.0174, .0025]
Emotional Maltreatment	.0009 [−.0036, .0156]	−.0007 [−.0134, .0060]	.0000 [−.0072, .0081]	.0008 [−.0029, .0136]
Sexual Abuse	−.0013 [−.0173, .0045]	.0013 [−.0037, .0169]	−.0017 [−.0186, .0038]	−.0001 [−.0068, .0045]
Neglect	.0259 [.0047, .0657]*	.0064 [−.0131, .0334]	−.0109 [−.0398, .0090]	.0056 [−.0141, .0272]
Parental Involvement	.0018 [−.0097, .0208]	.0110 [.0003, .0327]*	.0053 [−.0018, .0278]	−.0047 [−.0228, .0043]
CBCL Internalizing	.0174 [−.0054, .0597]	−.0182 [−.0539, .0026]	.0373 [.0071, .0864]*	.0038 [−.0135, .0277]
CBCL Externalizing	−.0029 [−.0325, .0227]	.0199 [.0013, .0534]*	−.0187 [−.0656, .0168]	.0037 [−.0054, .0255]
General Effects	.0421 [.0064, .0901]*	.0189 [−.0161, .0617]	.0177 [−.0209, .0656]	.0071 [−.0223, .0402]

Note. CI = 95% confidence interval. Analyses included the following control variables: site, race, and gender. Estimates of indirect effects derived from Preacher and Hayes’ (2008) multiple mediator models. Bias corrected using 5000 resamples.

^*p < .05.