How social support predicts academic achievement among secondary students with special needs: the mediating role of self-esteem

Middle East Current Psychiatry

Table 3 The direct, indirect, and total effects (N = 200)

Variables	Direct effects		Indirect effects		Total effect
Variables	Estimate	p-value	Estimate	p-value	Estimate	p-value
Family → academic achievement	3.971	0.010	1.202	0.007	5.173	0.008
Friends → academic achievement	3.744	0.020	− 0.10	0.952	3.734	0.031
Significant other → academic achievement	− 0.400	0.870	0.522	0.327	0.075	0.996
Self-esteem → academic achievement	2.176	0.005	-	-	-	-
Friends → self-esteem	− 0.004	0.978	-	-	-	-
Family → self-esteem	0.522	0.000	-	-	-	-
Significant other → self-esteem	0.239	0.324	-	-	-	-