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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 4.

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

Independent Variable	Mediating Variable	Dependent Variable	Correlation of Errors	Omitted Confounder
Adolescent Depressed Mood	Education Party Identification Social Interaction Personal Efficacy	Voting	−.17^*	−.11^*
			−.17^*	−.13^*
			−.18^*	−.17^*
			−.18^*	−.17^*

	Education Party Identification Social Interaction Personal Efficacy	Political Participation	−.07^*	−.05^*
			−.07^*	−.06^*
			−.07^*	−.07^*
			−.07^*	−.07^*

p < 0.05 (two-tailed)

Note: Analyses conducted using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health.