Hopelessness and Excessive Drinking among Aboriginal Adolescents: The Mediating Roles of Depressive Symptoms and Drinking to Cope

Table 2

Bootstrap analyses of hypothesized indirect effects.

			Bootstrap estimates
Hypothesized Indirect effect	Unstandardized indirect effect	Standardized indirect effect	SE for standardized indirect effect	95% confidence interval; for standardized indirect; effect (lower and upper)
Hopelessness to drinking to cope; through depressive symptoms	.167	.143	.025	.094,  .192*
Depressive symptoms to excessive; drinking through drinking to cope	.019	.123	.025	.074,  .173*
Hopelessness to excessive; drinking^a	.013	.059	.029	.002,  .116*

Note. SE = bias-corrected standard error. ^aindirect effect is based on all indirect paths. *Confidence intervals excluding zero are significant at P < .05.