Table 1

Unstandardized and standardized estimates of indirect effects for alexithymia to negative and positive emotions

Indirect path	Unstandardized estimate	Lower bounds	Upper bounds	P value	Standardized estimate
Alexithymia → stress → emotional processing → negative mood	0.026	0.012	0.045	0.002	0.240**
Alexithymia → stress → negative mood	0.199	0.150	0.251	0.001	0.285***
Alexithymia → stress → positive mood	−0.118	−0.160	−0.083	0.001	−0.209***
Alexithymia → emotional processing → negative mood	0.035	0.013	0.061	0.002	0.050**
Stress → emotional processing → negative mood	0.099	0.035	0.177	0.003	0.079**