Table 3

Direct, indirect and total effects of T1 marital status on T2 depressive symptoms and specific indirect paths for each marital status relative to those in first marriages^†

	Remarried	Separated/divorced	Widowed	Never-married	Cohabiting
Direct effect	0.365**	0.428**	0.290**	0.029	0.359**
Indirect effect	0.005	0.119**	0.162**	0.133**	0.066*
Total effect	0.370**	0.548**	0.452**	0.162*	0.425**
Specific indirect paths
Self-esteem	0.019*	0.019*	0.014	0.008	0.043**
Primary social integration	−0.012+	0.022**	0.049*	0.060*	−0.006
Secondary social integration	−0.001	0.014+	0.032+	−0.009	0.026+
Adjusted household income	−0.001	0.065*	0.067*	0.073*	0.003

↵† Significance based on 90%, 95% and 99% bias-corrected CIs with bootstrapped SEs using 1000 resamples (+ p<0.10, *p<0.05, **p<0.01).