Table 5.
Serial mediation analysis: direct and indirect effects of poverty-related scarcity-adversity on child engagement in mother-child interaction task
| Dependent Variables | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Infant CORT | Maternal CORT | Child engagement in MCX | |||||||
| Direct Effects | β | SE | p | β | SE | p | β | SE | p |
| Scarcity-adversity | – | – | – | 0.18** | 0.05 | <0.01 | −0.10* | 0.04 | 0.04 |
| Maternal CORT | 0.78** | 0.18 | <.01 | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Infant CORT | – | – | – | – | – | – | −0.17* | 0.07 | <0.01 |
| Indirect Effect | β | SE | 95% CI | ||||||
| SA → Maternal CORT → Infant CORT | – | – | – | – | – | – | −0.03* | 0.01 | (−0.05, −0.01) |
*
Indicates that p < .05 or that confidence interval does not contain zero;
**
p < .01;
CORT, cortisol; MCX = mother-child interaction task; SE = standard error; CI = confidence interval; SA = scarcity-adversity. All coefficients are standardized.