Table 5.
Bootstrap analysis of the significance test of the mediating effect and its effect size.
Path | Effect | BootSE | BootLLCI | BootULCI | Relative mediating effect (%) |
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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.