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Published in final edited form as: Soc Sci Q. 2015 Jun 9;96(5):1226–1243. doi: 10.1111/ssqu.12173

Table 3.

Education and party identification partially explain the effect of adolescent depressed mood.

Independent Variable	Mediating Variable	Dependent Variable	Total Effect	Direct Effect	Indirect Effect	Percent Mediated
Adolescent Depressed Mood	Education Party Identification Social Interaction Personal Efficacy	Voting	−.174^*	−.112^*	−.062^*	36%
			−.173^*	−.134^*	−.040^*	23%
			−.177^*	−.168^*	−.008^*	5%
			−.176^*	−.167^*	−.008	5%

	Education Party Identification Social Interaction Personal Efficacy	Political Participation	−.069^*	−.049^*	−.020^*	29%
			−.070^*	−.061^*	−.009^*	13%
			−.070^*	−.066^*	−.003^*	5%
			−.069^*	−.069^*	−.001	0%

p < 0.05 (two-tailed)

Note: Analyses conducted using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. Each model is a logistic regression that includes the control variables from the models in Table 2. Total effects may differ across models because of small changes in sample size due to missingness on the mediating variables; the direct and indirect effects may not exactly sum to the total effects due to rounding.