Parental Catastrophizing Partially Mediates the Association between Parent-Reported Child Pain Behavior and Parental Protective Responses

Table 3

Results of mediation analyses treating parent-reported child pain behavior (PRCPB) as the predictor, parental catastrophizing (CAT) as the mediator, and protective responses as the outcome (𝑛=184).

Path	Effect	Estimate (SE)	𝑃	95% CI
c	Effect of PRCPB on protect	3.04 (0.97)	0.002	—
a	Effect of PRCPB on parent CAT	7.07 (1.12)	<0.001	—
b	Effect of parent CAT on protect	0.32 (0.05)	<0.001	—
a × b	Indirect effect	2.08 (0.56)	—	1.09, 3.30
c′	Direct effect	0.96 (1.01)	0.342

Note: confidence intervals excluding zero indicate statistical significance. The ratio of the indirect effect (a × b) to the total effect (c) or the proportion of the total effect mediated was 0.68.