Table 4.
Moderated Mediation Effect of Level of Perceived Stress and Equanimity on the Relationship between Level of Neuroticism and Depressive symptoms controlling for age, sex and education.
| Outcome: CSI-Dep | Product of Coefficients | p-Value | Bootstrapping Bias-Corrected 95%CI |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Point Estimate | SE | Lower Limit | Upper Limit | |||
| Model 15 (R2 = 0.646) |
Total effect | 1.035 | 0.161 | 0.000 | 0.784 | 1.323 |
| Direct effect | ||||||
| - NI | 0.651 | 0.059 | 0.001 | 0.651 | 1.009 | |
| Mediator: PSS | 0.676 | 0.095 | 0.000 | 0.474 | 0.785 | |
| SBI-E | 0.427 | 0.098 | 0.000 | 0.286 | 0.608 | |
| Moderator1: SBI-E *Neuro | −0.418 | 0.189 | 0.027 | −0.559 | −0.178 | |
| Moderator2: SBI-E *PSS | −0.413 | 0.119 | 0.001 | −0.418 | −0.130 | |
| Total indirect | 0.384 | 0.059 | 0.000 | 0.277 | 0.464 | |
| Indirect effect | ||||||
| - via PSS | 0.384 | 0.059 | 0.000 | 0.277 | 0.464 | |
Note: NI = Neuroticism Inventory, CSI-D = Depression scale of Core Symptom Index, PSS = Perceived stress scale, SBI-E = Equanimity scale of the inner Strength-based Inventory.