Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health

Table 2 Evaluating the moderated mediation effects: emotional LN as the moderator

From: Callous-unemotional traits and externalizing problem behaviors in left-behind preschool children: the role of emotional lability/negativity and positive teacher-child relationship

	Model 1: Emotional LN				Model 2: EPBs
	β	SE	t	95% CI	β	SE	t	95% CI
CU traits	0.43	0.51	8.44^**	[0.33, 0.53]	0.44	0.04	12.12^**	[0.37, 0.52]
Positive TCR	-0.17	0.05	-3.36^**	[-0.27, -0.07]
CU traits × Positive TCR	-0.08	0.03	-2.48^*	[-0.15, -0.02]
Emotional LN					0.36	0.04	9.98^**	[0.29, 0.44]
Gender	0.02	0.07	0.24	[-0.13, 0.16]	0.08	0.06	1.27	[-0.04, 0.20]
Age	-0.01	0.05	-0.10	[-0.10, 0.09]	0.01	0.04	0.34	[-0.06, 0.09]
R ²	0.31				0.51
F	47.53^**				135.03^**

N = 525. Gender and age were controlled as covariates. CU traits, callous-unemotional traits; Emotional LN, emotional lability/negativity; Positive TCR, positive teacher-child relationship; EPBs, externalizing problem behaviors
^*p < 0.05. ^**p < 0.01

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