The relationship between parenting attitudes, negative cognition, and the depressive symptoms according to gender in Korean adolescents

Table 3 Mediation in the relationship between maternal rejecting attitudes and female adolescents’ depressive symptoms

Model		Step1		Step2		Step3
		Autonomic thoughts (model 1) or self-esteem (model 2)		Depressive symptoms		Depressive symptoms
		B (SE)	p	B (SE)	p	B (SE)	p
1	Rejecting attitudes	0.87 (0.30)	0.004**	0.22 (0.09)	0.012*	0.11 (0.08)	0.173
	Autonomic thoughts					0.12 (0.02)	<0.001**
	F	8.34	0.004**	6.43	0.012*	25.31	<0.001**
2	Rejecting attitudes	−0.22	0.003**	0.22 (0.09)	0.012*	0.13 (0.08)	0.118
2	Self-esteem	(0.07)				−0.40 (0.08)	<0.001**
	F	8.87	0.003^**	6.43	0.012^*	15.38	<0.001**

Step 1 includes maternal rejecting attitudes as independent variables with the hypothesized mediator (autonomic thoughts or self-esteem) as a dependent variable
Step 2 includes maternal rejecting attitudes as independent variables with depressive symptoms as a dependent variable
Step 3 includes maternal rejecting attitudes and the hypothesized mediator (autonomic thoughts or self-esteem) as dependent variables with depressive symptoms as a dependent variable
Baron and Kenny’s method. (* p < 0.05, ** p < 0.01)

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