Positive resources for combating depressive symptoms among Chinese male correctional officers: perceived organizational support and psychological capital

Table 4 Mediating roles of PsyCap and its components on the POS-depressive symptoms association

	Mediators	a	b	a*b (BCa 95% CI)
FL-COs
(N = 953)	PsyCap	0.485**	−0.294**	−0.143* (−0.186, −0.103)
	Self efficacy	0.358**	0.025	0.009 (−0.031, 0.042)
	Hope	0.500**	−0.104*	−0.052 (−0.106, 0.001)
	Resilience	0.342**	−0.152**	−0.052* (−0.090, −0.017)
	Optimism	0.425**	−0.124**	−0.053* (−0.090, −0.016)
NFL-COs
(N = 475)	PsyCap	0.423**	−0.299**	−0.126* (−0.186, −0.065)
	Self efficacy	0.230**	−0.093	−0.021 (−0.060, 0.012)
	Hope	0.491**	−0.040	−0.020 (−0.115, 0.066)
	Resilience	0.358**	−0.045	−0.016 (−0.068, 0.029)
	Optimism	0.339**	−0.195**	−0.066* (−0.116, −0.008)

PsyCap: psychological capital; POS: perceived organizational support; FL-COs: frontline correctional officers; NFL-COs: non-frontline correctional officers; BCa 95% CI: the bias-corrected and accelerated 95% confidence interval.
a: associations of POS with PsyCap and its components; b: associations of PsyCap and its components with depressive symptoms after controlling for the predictor variables; a*b: the product of a and b.
Age, marital status, education, and monthly income were covariates.
* p < 0.05, ** p < 0.01.

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