Table 2 Direct effects of the tested path model
From: Morality in middle childhood: the role of callous-unemotional traits and emotion regulation skills
Dependent Variables | Independent Variables | Path coefficient (β) | p |
|---|---|---|---|
Emotion regulation skills ← | Callousness | − 0.25 | < 0.001 |
Uncaring | − 0.34 | < 0.001 | |
Unemotionality | − 0.12 | 0.059 | |
Gender | − 0.07 | 0.249 | |
Age | 0.08 | 0.217 | |
SEN | − 0.22 | < 0.001 | |
Immoral emotional attribution ← | Callousness | 0.45 | < 0.001 |
Uncaring | 0.18 | 0.008 | |
Unemotionality | − 0.02 | 0.737 | |
Emotion regulation skills | − 0.21 | 0.002 | |
Gender | − 0.13 | 0.021 | |
Age | − 0.03 | 0.634 | |
SEN | − 0.05 | 0.404 | |
Admissibility of immoral actions ← | Callousness | 0.42 | < 0.001 |
Uncaring | 0.17 | 0.013 | |
Unemotionality | 0.11 | 0.103 | |
Emotion regulation skills | − 0.14 | 0.049 | |
Gender | − 0.10 | 0.072 | |
Age | − 0.03 | 0.684 | |
SEN | − 0.09 | 0.143 | |
Callousness ← | Gender | 0.08 | 0.256 |
Age | 0.15 | 0.047 | |
SEN | 0.20 | 0.008 | |
Uncaring ← | Gender | − 0.02 | 0.758 |
Age | 0.16 | 0.041 | |
SEN | 0.01 | 0.859 | |
Unemotionality ← | Gender | 0.03 | 0.700 |
Age | 0.16 | 0.033 | |
SEN | 0.17 | 0.026 |