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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Dec 12.
Published in final edited form as: J Homosex. 2018 Dec 24;67(4):513–527. doi: 10.1080/00918369.2018.1547561

Table 3.

Mediation analyses of the relations between victimization and having unprotected anal sex with casual partners.

Types of Victimization Mediator Relation between the victimization and the mediator Relation between the mediator and condomless anal sex Direct relation between the victimization and condomless anal sex Indirect relation through the potential mediator
α (SE) p value β (SE) p value γ (SE) p value αβ (95% ACI)
Childhood Victimization Problem drinking 0.03 (0.01) 0.002 0.23 (0.20) 0.253 0.02 (0.02) 0.308 0.01 (−0.003, 0.03)
Marijuana use −0.10 (0.11) 0.380 0.02 (0.01) 0.088 −0.002 (−0.02, 0.01)
Personal Victimization Problem drinking 0.04 (0.07) 0.578 0.24 (0.17) 0.154 0.16 (0.08) 0.045 0.01 (−0.01, 0.09)
Marijuana use 1.83 (1.06) 0.087 0.02 (0.01) 0.137 0.03 (−0.002, 0.09)
Institutional Victimization Problem drinking 0.06 (0.06) 0.318 0.24 (0.20) 0.238 0.13 (0.06) 0.024 0.01 (−0.01, 0.12)
Marijuana use 1.25 (2.61) 0.633 0.02 (0.01) 0.148 0.02 (−0.03, 0.21)

Note. SE is standard error. ACI is asymmetric confidence interval based on bootstrap bias-corrected method with 5,000 replicates