TABLE 4.

Testing the mediation effect of expressive suppression on depression.

Predictors	Model 1 (depression)			Model 2 (ES)			Model 3 (depression)
	b	SE	t	b	SE	t	b	SE	t
Gender	–0.459	0.492	–0.934	–1.678	0.331	–5.066	–0.5894	0.501	–1.176
Age	–0.082	0.136	–0.603	–0.165	0.092	0.168	–0.081	0.136	–0.594
Loneliness	0.866***	0.054	16.019	0.073*	0.036	2.017	0.871***	0.054	16.084
ERQ: ES							–0.077	0.058	–1.329
R2	0.283			0.043			0.285
F	85.643***			9.666***			64.749***

ERQ: Emotion Regulation Questionnaire; ES, expressive suppression. *p < 0.05. ***p < 0.001.