Fig. 1

Significant indirect effect of social rejection sensitivity and negative interpretation bias on the relationship between perceived parental rejection and emotional disorder symptoms. Social rejection sensitivity = social rejection sensitivity measured by the total score on the O²S³ [25]; negative interpretation bias = negative interpretation bias measured as proportion of grammatically correct sentences with negative valence on the pre-ASST scrambled sentences task [23]; emotional disorder symptomatology = emotional disorder symptoms measured as composite score of standardized DASS-21 total score [30] and standardized SDQ internalizing score [31]; perceived parental rejection = perceived parental rejection measured as eponymous subscale score of the PASCQ [36]. The paths include standardized β estimates of the associations. The two mediators were allowed to covary. The figure includes the effect of perceived parental rejection on emotional disorder symptoms with (above the arrow) and without (below the arrow) controlling for social rejection sensitivity and negative interpretation bias. Age was included as a covariate in the model but is not depicted for simplicity. *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001.