Table 3.

Mediating effect of resilience subscales between alexithymia and stress

	Coefficient	SE	t value	P value
Alexithymia → resilience (mediator)
Alexithymia → tenacity	−0.193	0.044	−4.358	<0.001
Alexithymia → self-improvement	−0.129	0.027	−4.804	<0.001
Alexithymia → optimism	−0.074	0.014	−5.175	<0.001
Resilience → stress (after controlling for Alexithymia)
Tenacity → stress	0.034	0.160	0.214	0.831
Self-improvement → stress	−0.825	0.273	−3.028	0.003
Optimism → stress	−1.324	0.369	−3.594	0.004

	Effect	Boot SE	Boot lower limit CI	Boot upper limit CI
Indirect path of alexithymia to stress
Alexithymia → tenacity → stress	−0.007	0.032	−0.077	0.052
Alexithymia → self-improvement → stress	0.106	0.054	0.024	0.231
Alexithymia → optimism → stress	0.098	0.042	0.030	0.191

CI, confidence interval; SE, standard error.