Table 6.
Moderated mediation analysis of the effect of Dimensions of Anger Reactions (DAR) on the association between Cynical Distrust Scale (CDS) and total vaccine hesitancy (TVH) through the Medical Mistrust Multiformat Scale.
| Direct Relationships | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Variable | b | SE | t | p | 95% Confidence Interval | |
| LLCI | ULCI | |||||
| CDS → MMMS | 0.5875 | 0.1126 | 5.2155 | 0.0000 | 0.3660 | 0.8090 |
| CDS → TVH | 0.0642 | 0.0215 | 2.9867 | 0.0030 | 0.0219 | 0.1065 |
| MMMS → TVH | 0.0798 | 0.0245 | 3.2544 | 0.0012 | 0.0316 | 0.1280 |
| CDS*DAR → MMMS | −0.0318 | 0.0100 | −3.1800 | 0.0016 | −0.0515 | -0.0121 |
| Indirect Relationships | ||||||
| Effects | ||||||
| Direct | 0.0642 | 0.0215 | 2.9867 | 0.0030 | 0.0219 | 0.1065 |
| Indirect | 0.0182 | 0.0067 | 2.7164 | 0.0064 | 0.0322 | |
| Probing Moderated Indirect Relationships | ||||||
| Low Level of DAR | 0.0280 | 0.0097 | 2.8866 | 0.0101 | 0.0479 | |
| High Level of DAR | 0.0084 | 0.0058 | 1.4482 | −0.0017 | 0.0210 | |
| Index of Moderated Mediation | −0.0025 | 0.0011 | 2.2727 | -0.0051 | −0.0006 | |