The Role of Anger Expression in Unmet Expectations and Depressive Symptoms

Table 2

Effects of the mediation model testing the direct and indirect effects of anger-in in meeting expectation-depression relationship for partner (P) and actor (A).

Effect	Type	Estim.		95% CI	Stand.
Direct expectation → anger-in	A	-3.75	<0.001	-5.92; -1.56	-0.28
	P	0.84	0.451	-1.34; 3.03	0.06
Direct anger-in → depression	A	0.27	<0.001	0.14; 0.39	0.28
	P	-0.08	0.217	-0.20; 0.04	-0.08
Direct expectations → depression	A	-1.95	0.055	-3.94; -0.04	-0.15
	P	-2.51	0.013	-4.50; -0.53	-0.20
Total expectations → depression	A	-3.02	0.004	-5.07; -0.96	-0.24
	P	-1.95	0.055	-3.94; 0.04	-0.15
Indirect expectations → depression	A-A	-1.00	0.817	-12.44; 5.36	-0.08
	P-P	-0.07	0.719	-5.28; 1.61	-0.005
	A-P	0.30	0.943	-10.70; 6.80	0.02
	P-A	0.22	0.869	-4.67; 2.09	0.02
Total indirect expectations → depression	A	-1.07	0.003	-2.03; -0.32	-0.08
	P	0.52	0.210	-0.26; 1.46	-0.16

Estim.: unstandardized estimate; Stand.: standardized estimate.