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

Table 6 Simple effect across the mean, low and high levels of expression suppression

Level	CT - SE - depression symptoms			CT - SE - anxiety symptoms
Level	First stage	Second stage	Indirect effect	First stage	Second stage	Indirect effect
ES_Low	-0.22^**	-0.17^***	0.04^***	-0.22^**	-0.12^***	0.03^***
ES_Mean	-0.19^***	-0.23^**	0.04^***	-0.19^***	-0.15^***	0.03^***
ES_High	-0.18^***	-0.34^***	0.06^***	-0.18^***	-0.25^***	0.04^***
Difference between ES_High and ES_Low	0.04	0.17^**	0.03^*	0.04	0.13^**	0.02^*

Note. N = 6057. The first- and second-stage simple effects for the mean, low, and high levels of expressive suppression (ES) were calculated with coefficient estimates from Table 5. TAs were 0 (i.e., centered mean for ES), -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 ES, respectively. Differences in simple effects were computed by subtracting the effects for low ES from those for high ES. 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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