Table 4.

Mediation analysis: direct and indirect effects of poverty-related scarcity-adversity on child engagement in mother–child interaction task

	Dependent Variables
	Infant CORT			Child engagement in MCX
Direct Effects	β	SE	p	β	SE	p
Scarcity-adversity	0.28**	0.10	0.01	−0.17†	0.09	0.07
Infant CORT	–	–	–	−0.22	0.17	0.19
Indirect Effect				β	SE	95% CI
Scarcity-adversity → Infant CORT	–	–	–	−0.06	0.09	(−0.31, 0.00)

^**p < .01,

^†p < .10;

CORT, cortisol; MCX = mother-child interaction task; SE = standard error; CI = confidence interval. All coefficients are standardized.