How does parental attachment contribute to post-traumatic growth among adolescents following an earthquake? Testing a multiple mediation model

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Table 1. Means (M), standard deviations (SD), and correlations among the main variables.

	M (SD)	1	2	3	4
1. Parental attachment	90.41 (18.15)	1.00
2. Safety feelings	53.73 (12.64)	0.40***	1.00
3. Justice beliefs	64.21 (13.35)	0.41***	0.30***	1.00
4. Cognitive reappraisal	27.71 (6.46)	0.27***	0.16***	0.33***	1.00
5. PTG	61.34 (21.90)	0.21***	0.90*	0.25***	0.34***

PTG, post-traumatic growth.

***p < 0.001, *p < 0.05.

Figure 1. Model of multiple indirect effects. PTG, post-traumatic growth. ***p < 0.001, **p < 0.01, *p < 0.05.

Table 2. Standardized regression coefficients for models and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for the multiple indirect effects.

PTG	Bootstrap 95% CI	Standardized β
One-step mediation
Indirect via safety feelings	−0.033 to 0.059	0.013
Indirect via justice beliefs	0.013 to 0.082	0.048
Indirect via cognitive reappraisal	0.024 to 0.089	0.057
Two-step mediation
Indirect via safety feelings and justice beliefs	>0.000 to 0.016	0.008
Indirect via safety feelings and cognitive reappraisal	−0.014 to 0.011	−0.002
Indirect via justice beliefs and cognitive reappraisal	0.012 to 0.040	0.026
Three-step mediation
Indirect via safety feelings, justice beliefs and cognitive reappraisal	0.001 to 0.008	0.004

PTG, post-traumatic growth.

The 95% CIs of indirect path coefficients that do not include 0 indicate a significant path. Significant paths are shown in bold.