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. 2025 Jul 15;16:1618503. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1618503

Table 5.

Bootstrap analysis of the significance test of the mediating effect and its effect size.

Path Effect BootSE BootLLCI BootULCI Relative mediating effect (%)
X → M1 → Y 0.074 0.0382 0.0087 0.16 21.64
X → M2 → Y 0.1382 0.042 0.059 0.2249 40.41
X → M1 → M2 → Y 0.0233 0.0103 0.008 0.0476 6.81
Total indirect effect 0.2355 0.0508 0.1416 0.3434 68.86
Direct effect 0.1065 0.0549 −0.0014 0.2145 31.14
Total effect 0.342 0.0377 0.2758 0.4082 100

BootSE, BootLLCI, and BootULCI refer to the standard error, lower limits, and upper limits of the percentile Bootstrap method, respectively.