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Published in final edited form as: J Aging Health. 2012 Nov 15;25(1):3–28. doi: 10.1177/0898264312464884

Table 3.

Standardized Direct and Indirect Effects of Childhood Misfortune on W2 Symptoms, MIDUS

	Somatic distress-W2	Musculoskeletal -W2	Thermoregulatory -W2	Negative affect-W2	Anxiety -W2
Direct effect
Abuse	.01	.07^*	−.01	.03	.05
Financial strain	.02	.02	.02	.01	−.02
Family structure	−.04	.06^*	.02	−.01	−.04
Indirect effect (through W1 version of latent construct)^a
Abuse	.10^***	.08^***	.03^*	.08^***	.09^***
Financial strain	.03	.03	.00	.02	.02
Family structure	.01	−.01	−.01	.01	.01

An example of such an indirect effect would be abuse → somatic distress W1 → somatic distress W2 (path a → ee in Figure 2)

p < .05.

^**

p < .01.

^***

p < .001.