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Effect pathways. The magnitude of the indirect effect for each mediator is calculated by multiplication of the indirect pathways (eg, a1 *b1 for Δpain catastrophizing). The total effect (C) equals the sum of the direct effect and the indirect effect(s) in each particular mediation analysis.
