Child maltreatment, cognitive functions and the mediating role of mental health problems among maltreated children and adolescents in Uganda

Table 3 Association between child maltreatment, working memory and mental health problems

	B	SE of B	β	t	95% CI
	B	SE of B	β	t	LCI	UCI
Mental health problems^a
Age	− 0.017	0.061	− 0.032	− 0.285	− 0.138	0.103
Education in years	0.112	0.080	0.155	1.392	− 0.047	0.270
Trauma	0.276	0.059	0.292	4.715***	0.161	0.392
Maltreatment	0.074	0.015	0.297	4.828***	0.044	0.104
Working memory^b
Age	− 0.003	0.095	− 0.004	− 0.031	− 0.190	0.184
Education in years	0.111	0.125	0.111	0.884	− 0.136	0.358
Trauma	0.019	0.091	0.014	0.206	− 0.0161	0.199
Maltreatment	− 0.083	0.024	− 0.242	− 3.482***	− 0.130	− 0.036
Mediation model
Working memory^c
Age	− 0.002	0.095	− 0.002	− 0.020	− 0.189	0.186
Education in years	0.104	0.126	0.104	0.822	− 0.145	0.352
Trauma	0.001	0.096	0.001	0.012	− 0.188	0.190
Maltreatment^d	− 0.088	0.025	− 0.256	− 3.498***	− 0.137	− 0.038
Mental health problems	0.064	0.104	0.046	0.614	− 0.141	0.269

	B	SE of B	β	Z	LCI	UCI
Indirect effect^e
Maltreatment → mental health problems	0.005	0.008	0.012	0.597	− 0.010	0.021

B unstandardized regression weight, SE standard error, β standardized regression weight, t t statistic, CI confidence interval at 0.05 level of significance, ***p < 0.001
^aAdj. R² = 0.257; F (4225) = 20.759, p < 0.001
^bAdj. R² = 0.047; F (4225) = 3.833, p = 0.005
^cAdj. R² = 0.044; F (5224) = 3.124, p = 0.01
^dTotal effect of maltreatment on working memory: B = − 0.830, SE of B:0.024, β = − 0.268, t = − 3.482***, LCI: − 0.130, UCI: − 0.036
^eSobel test result for indirect effect of maltreatment on working memory via the mediator mental health problems

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