The Role of Anger Expression in Unmet Expectations and Depressive Symptoms

Table 3

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

Effect	Type	Estim.		95% CI	Stand.
Direct expectation → anger-out	A	-1.07	0.333	-3.24; 1.10	-0.08
	P	-3.01	0.006	-5.18; -0,84	-0.24
Direct anger-out → depression	A	0.14	0.046	0.003; 0.28	0.14
	P	-0.11	0.134	-0.24; 0.03	-0.10
Direct expectations → depression	A	-3.18	0.002	-5.28; -1.13	-0.25
	P	-1.70	0.103	-3.75; 0.34	-0.13
Total expectations → depression	A	-3.01	0.004	-5.06; -0.95	-0.23
	P	-2.02	0.054	-4.07; 0.03	-0.16
Indirect expectations → depression	A-A	-0.15	0.663	-6.43; 1.36	-0.01
	P-P	0.32	0.929	-9.33; 4.75	0.02
	A-P	0.11	0.790	-5.79; 1.66	0.009
	P-A	-0.43	0.889	-10.64; 4.04	-0.03
Total indirect expectations → depression	A	0.16	0.647	-0.51; 0.92	0.01
	P	-0.31	0.373	-1.07; 0.36	-0.02

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