The role of self-esteem and emotion regulation in the associations between childhood trauma and mental health in adulthood: a moderated mediation model

Table 4 Simple effect across the mean, low and high levels of cognitive reappraisal

Level	CT - SE - depression symptoms			CT - SE - anxiety symptoms
Level	First stage	Second stage	Indirect effect	First stage	Second stage	Indirect effect
CR_low	-0.16^**	-0.30^***	0.05^***	-0.16^**	-0.20^***	0.03^***
CR_Mean	-0.18^***	-0.24^**	0.04^***	-0.18^***	-0.16^***	0.04^**
CR_High	-0.19^***	-0.25^***	0.05^***	-0.19^***	-0.18^***	0.04^***
Difference between CR_High and CR_Low	0.04	0.05	0.00	0.04	0.03	0.01

Note. N = 6057
The first- and second-stage simple effects for the mean, low, and high levels of cognitive reappraisal (CR) were calculated with coefficient estimates from Table 3. TAs were 0 (i.e., centered mean for CR), -1 (i.e., one SD below the mean), and 1 (i.e., one SD above the mean) for the mean, low and high levels of CR, respectively. Differences in simple effects were computed by subtracting the effects for low CR from those for high CR. Finally, the indirect effects were calculated by multiplying the simple effects in the first- and second stage. Significance tests for the indirect effects were based on bias-corrected confidence intervals derived from 5,000 bootstrapped samples
CT = Childhood Trauma; SE = Self-esteem. * p < 0.05, ** p < 0.01, *** p < 0.001

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