Table 2.

Direct and indirect effects and 95% confidence intervals for the mediation analyses before inclusion of the covariates.

	Anxiety			Depression			Somatic Symptoms			Somatic Symptom Disorder
	Estimated Effect	95% CI		Estimated Effect	95% CI		Estimated Effect	95% CI		Estimated Effect	95% CI
		Lower Bounds	Upper Bounds		Lower Bounds	Upper Bounds		Lower Bounds	Upper Bounds		Lower Bounds	Upper Bounds
Direct effect
Loneliness → social support deficit	0.87 **	0.74	0.99	0.87 **	0.74	0.99	0.87 **	0.74	0.99	0.87 **	0.74	0.99
Loneliness → outcome	1.37 **	0.96	1.78	1.76 **	1.34	2.19	1.60 **	1.13	2.06	4.74 **	2.92	6.57
Social support deficit → outcome	0.55 **	0.21	0.88	0.74 **	0.39	1.08	0.52 **	0.10	0.81	0.77	−0.60	2.15
Indirect effect
Loneliness → social support deficit → outcome	0.47 **	0.12	0.83	0.64 **	0.22	1.09	0.45 **	0.05	0.86	0.67	−0.69	1.97
N			187			187			187			187
R2			0.47			0.58			0.46			0.28

Note: ** p < 0.01, * p < 0.05.