Does perfectionism in bipolar disorder pedigrees mediate associations between anxiety/stress and mood symptoms?

International Journal of Bipolar Disorders

Table 4 Summary of mediation results for chronic depressive and hypomanic symptoms with self-oriented perfectionism and socially-prescribed perfectionism as mediators controlling for age, gender and opposing mood state

IV	Effect of IV on DV	Mediators	Effect of IV on M	Effect of M on DV	Indirect effect
Chronic depressive symptoms
Anxiety	0.60***	SOP	0.70***	0.15**	0.11^a
		SPP	0.50***	−0.05	−0.02
Stress	0.62***	SOP	0.75***	0.11**	0.12^a
		SPP	0.53***	−0.02	0.01
Chronic (Hypo)manic symptoms
Anxiety	0.91***	SOP	0.70***	−0.03	−0.02
		SPP	0.50***	0.30**	0.15^a
Stress	1.03***	SOP	0.75***	−0.05	−0.04
		SPP	0.53***	0.30**	0.16^a

IV independent variable, M mediating variable, DV dependent variable, SOP self-oriented perfectionism, SPP socially-prescribed perfectionism
* p < 0.05; ** p < 0.01; *** p < 0.001
^aSignificant point estimate p < 0.05