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

Table 4

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

Path	Effect	Estimate (SE)	𝑃	95% CI
c	Effect of CAT on protect	0.32 (0.05)	<0.001	—
a	Effect of CAT on PRCPB	0.03 (0.004)	<0.001	—
b	Effect of PRCPB on protect	3.04 (0.97)	0.002	—
a × b	Indirect effect	0.02 (0.03)	—	–0.03, 0.07
c′	Direct effect	0.29 (0.06)	<0.001	—

Note: confidence intervals excluding zero indicate statistical significance. The proportion of the indirect effect (a × b) to the total effect (c) or the proportion of the total effect mediated was 0.08 (0.0245/0.3184).