Negative life events and aggression among Chinese rural left-behind adolescents: do self-esteem and resilience mediate the relationship?

Table 5 Bootstrapped point estimates with standard errors and 95% confidence intervals for all indirect effects between negative life events and aggression (N = 1294)

				Bootstrapping 95% CI
	(Path)	Effect	SE	Lower	Upper
Direct effects	(c’)	0.3364	0.0315	0.2747	0.3982
Indirect effects
Via self-esteem	(a1b1)	0.0296	0.0110	0.0094	0.0526
Via resilience	(a2b2)	0.0361	0.0087	0.0213	0.0562
Via self-esteem and resilience	(a1d1b2)	0.0322	0.0066	0.0207	0.0473
Total indirect effect		0.0980	0.0150	0.0699	0.1296
Total effect		0.4344	0.0257	0.3839	0.4849

If the CI does not include zero, the effect is statistically significant at p < 0.05
Abbreviations: CI Confidence interval, SE Standard error

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