Children’s psychosocial wellbeing in the context of HIV/AIDS and poverty: a comparative investigation of orphaned and non-orphaned children living in South Africa

Table 4 Results of mediation analysis

Mediation analysis
Mediator: Communication with caregiver about problems (M)	Total Effect (IV → DV)		Direct effect (IV → DV when controlling for mediator)		Z scoreˠ	Lower CI	Upper CI^±
	β	SE	β	SE
Child age (IV) → Anxiety/Depression (DV)	0.41*	0.20	0.29	0.20	2.64**	0.04	0.22
Child age (IV) → Affability (DV)	-0.29*	0.11	-0.16	0.11	-3.61**	-0.21	-0.06

Note: Only significant mediation analyses are shown in the table, *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01.
ˠResults of the Sobel test for indirect effects.
±Number of boostrap resamples = 1000.

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