Table 4.

Separate analyses for female adolescents: Path coefficients for the parallel mediation models, separate models for maternal and paternal chronic illness.

Adolescent females	Maternal chronic illness (N = 611)			Paternal chronic illness (N = 612)
	Coeff.	95% CI	P-value	Coeff.	95% CI	P-value
Total effect (c)	4.576	0.770 to 8.383	0.019	4.278	0.463 to 8.034	0.028
Direct effect (c')	4.024	0.265 to 7.783	0.036	3.316	−0.473 to 7.105	0.086
a1	−0.060	−0.260 to 0.141	0.560	−0.196	−0.397 to −0.004	0.052
a2	−0.193	−0.400 to 0.014	0.068	−0.221	−0.429 to −0.014	>0.001
a3	−0.092	−0.036 to 0.220	0.159	0.144	−0.002 to 0.290	0.054
b1	−1.914	−3.677 to −0.151	0.033	−1.805	−3.572 to −0.038	0.045
b2	−2.045	−3.749 to −0.342	0.019	−2.080	−3.786 to −0.374	0.017
b3	1.166	−0.878 to 3.211	0.263	1.027	0.327 to−1.031	0.327
Indirect effects a
Total indirecta effect	0.654	0.224 to 1.436		0.962	0.180 to 1.999
a1b1	0.114	−0.245 to 0.589		0.354	−0.011 to 1.007
a2b2	0.395	−0.124 to 1.118		0.573	−0.002 to 1.212
a3b3	0.044	−0.181 to 0.364		0.032	−0.214 to 0.615

^aIf the 95% CI did not contain zero, the effect was considered statistically significant. The mediation models were adjusted for adolescent sex, parental SES and parental divorce. a₁-a₃ are regression coefficients for X₁-X₃, respectively. b₁-b₃ are regression coefficients for M₁-M₃, respectively.