Figure 1.

Tests of negative mood as mediator of association between academic problems and child-report of parent-child interaction. *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, *** p < 0.001. All values indicate unstandardized coefficients. a path - effect of the predictor variable on the mediator; b path - effect of the mediator on the outcome variable, controlling for the independent variable; c′ path - the direct effect of the predictor on the outcome variable, over and above the mediated effect