Gender Differences in Depression: Assessing Mediational Effects of Overt Behaviors and Environmental Reward through Daily Diary Monitoring

Table 2

Indirect effects of gender on depression through duration and reward values of overt behaviors using bootstrapping technique (𝑁=82: 5000 bootstrap samples).

	Point estimate	BCa 95% CI
		Lower	Upper
Simple mediation
Total domains engaged	−.29	−1.90	0.38
Total average reward	−.82	−2.90	−0.02*
Social reward	−1.20	−2.43	0.01
Physcial duration	.11	−0.42	1.07
Health/hygiene duration	−1.07	−3.29	0.43
Spiritual duration	−.47	−1.38	0.47
Passive/sedentary reward	−1.12	−2.42	0.04
Sexual duration	−.17	−0.99	0.47
Hobbies/recreation duration	−1.56	−5.66	−0.14*
Eating with others duration	−.68	−1.96	0.02
Eating with others reward	−1.13	−3.15	0.96
“Other behaviors” reward	−1.72	−4.57	−0.72*

BCa CI = Bias-corrected and accelerated confidence interval. Confidence intervals containing zero are considered nonsignificant.*𝑃<0.05.