Table 4.

Mediation analysis: Direct and indirect effects of poverty-related scarcity-adversity on infant affect in caregiver’s presence.

	Dependent Variable
	Infant Positive Affect			Infant Negative Affect
Predictor	B	SE	β	B	SE	β
Scarcity-Adversity (Direct Effect)	0.03	0.05	0.02	−0.19	0.06**	−0.12
Specific Indirect Effects
SA → Sensitive Parenting	−0.19	0.02***	−0.14	0.04	0.02	0.02
SA → Negative Parenting	0.02	0.01	0.01	0.13	0.02***	0.08

Note. B = unstandardized coefficient; SE = standard error; β = standardized coefficient; SA = Scarcity-Adversity;

^**p < 0.01;

^***p < 0.0001.