Table 3. Model 4 Bootstrap Analysis of Positive Rumination and Brooding Mediating the Relationships Between Trait Affect and Depressive Symptoms.
| Model Pathway | Standardized |
p | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| β | SE | 95% CI |
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| Lower | Upper | ||||
| Combined | |||||
| c Trait PA→Depressive | -.20 | .06 | -.31 | -.09 | .002 |
| c' Trait PA→Depressive | -.18 | .06 | -.30 | -.05 | .003 |
| Brooding | |||||
| α Trait PA→Brooding | -.15 | .06 | -.27 | -.04 | .014 |
| β Brooding→Depressive | .21 | .07 | .07 | .36 | .005 |
| Trait PA→Depressive α x β (c - c') | -.04 | .15 | -.09 | -.01 | .012 |
| Trait PA→Depressive c' | -.04a | ||||
| Positive Rumination | |||||
| α Trait PA→Positive Rumination | .34 | .07 | .20 | .47 | .002 |
| β Positive Rumination→Depressive | .04 | .06 | -.09 | .16 | .566 |
| Trait PA→Depressive α x β (c - c') | .02 | .14 | -.03 | .07 | .517 |
| Trait PA→Depressive c' | -.21b | ||||
a-.04 = (c - [c - c’]) = (-.20 - [-.20 + .04]).
b-.21 = (c - [c - c’]) = (-.20 - [-.20 + .21]).