Table 3. Indirect Effects From Mother Support to Child Socioemotional Adjustment via Mediators.

Support type and mediator	Externalizing problem intercept (90 months)	Internalizing problem intercept (90 months)
Note. Data presented are bias-corrected bootstrapped estimates, with 95% confidence intervals in parentheses, using a nonimputed analytic sample. For simplicity, nonsignificant effects for both externalizing and internalizing problems have been omitted. Models adjusted for child gender and developmental delay, maternal age, ethnic group, education, physical and mental health, smoking in pregnancy, couple relationship, father in household, number of children, grandparent in household, additional adult in household, family poverty.
Formal support
Dysfunctional parenting	−.096 [−.144, −.052]	−.036 [−.062, −.018]
Social support
Maternal distress	ns	−.031 [−.062, −.009]
Maternal distress and dysfunctional parenting	−.062 [−.093, −.038]	−.023 [−.040, −.013]
Economic strain	−.011 [−.031, −.001]	−.012 [−.033, −.002]
Economic strain and maternal distress	ns	−.004 [−.010, −.001]
Economic strain and dysfunctional parenting	−.007 [−.015, −.002]	−.003 [−.007, −.001]
Economic strain, maternal distress, and dysfunctional parenting	−.007 [−.016, −.002]	−.003 [−.007, −.001]