Hypothesis 3: potential mediators of the intervention effects at T2, T3 and T4
depression, Depression
The same MLM approach reported above was used to estimate which of the four potential mediators (see “Mediators”) showed evidence of group-dependent change over the four time periods. Four outcomes were modelled: (i) coping with stress (FEEL-KJ; 12 individual strategies and the two sub-scales adaptive and maladaptive ER), (ii) attributional style (ASF; 6 sub-scales), (iii) knowledge of depression (Knowledge of Depression questionnaire) and (iv) parenting style (ESI; positive and negative styles). We tested the correlations between the T1 scores for each variable and the number of assessments that each child completed. Only two of the potential mediator outcome variables showed a correlation with the amount of missing values at T1: the FEEL-KJ subscales acceptance (Outcomes which showed group-dependent change over time in the MLM (the “a path” in Baron-Kenny formulation [