A pathway to negative acculturation: marital maladjustment mediates the relationship between the length of residency and depressive symptoms in immigrant women in Taiwan

Table 3 Total, direct, and indirect (mediated by marital adjustment) effect models of years in Taiwan on depressive symptoms

Variables	Total effect model			Direct effect model			Indirect effect model
Variables	β	s.e. (β)	p	β	s.e. (β)	p	β	s.e. (β)	p
Years in Taiwan [predictive variable]	0.62*	0.27	0.0225	0.40	0.28	0.1410	–	–	–
Marital adjustment [mediator]	–	–	–	− 0.82*	0.30	0.0072	− 0.95*	0.29	0.0013
Constant and controlled variables
Constant	15.50	8.40	0.0675	31.22*	10.00	0.0023	33.55*	9.92	0.0010
Age (years)	− 0.02	0.19	0.9302	− 0.02	0.18	0.9322	0.08	0.17	0.6241
Women’s income (NTD)	− 0.56	1.25	0.6236	− 0.61	1.21	0.6164	− 0.37	1.21	0.7582
Husband’s income (NTD)	− 1.70	0.91	0.0641	− 1.88*	0.89	0.0370	− 1.94*	0.89	0.0314
Education (years)	0.90	1.06	0.3973	1.12	1.04	0.2829	1.16	1.04	0.2699
Husband’s education (years)	− 1.69*	0.84	0.0476	− 1.12	0.84	0.1874	− 1.01	0.85	0.2343
Employment status (Ref. = full time)	0.36	0.89	0.6850	− 0.17	0.89	0.8454	− 0.23	0.90	0.7938
Original nationality (Ref. = Vietnam)	0.06	0.46	0.8990	0.08	0.45	0.8640	− 0.05	0.44	0.9067

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