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. 2026 Jun 25;17:1835472. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1835472

Table 8.

Moderated mediation results: PROCESS macro model 7 (N = 311; 5,000 Bootstrap Samples).

Conditional indirect effect Moderator level b Indirect SE 95% BC CI Sig.
Intrinsic → Supervision → Satisfaction (Moderated by Gender) Male (coded 0) 0.06 0.02 [0.02, 0.11] Yes ✓
Female (coded 1) 0.14 0.03 [0.08, 0.21] Yes ✓
Index of moderated mediation (IMM) 0.08 0.03 [0.02, 0.15] Yes ✓
Extrinsic → Supervision → Satisfaction (Moderated by Job Level) Staff/Specialist (coded 0) 0.19 0.04 [0.12, 0.27] Yes ✓
Director/Senior manager (coded 2) 0.09 0.04 [0.03, 0.16] Yes ✓
Index of moderated mediation (IMM) −0.05 0.04 [−0.09, −0.02] Yes ✓

BC CI = Bias-Corrected 95% Confidence Interval. No CI includes zero, confirming significance of all moderated mediation effects. b = unstandardised regression coefficient. SE values report the standard deviation of the bootstrap sampling distribution; inference is based on the bias-corrected CI, which accounts for asymmetry and bias in the bootstrap distribution and should not be used to construct normal-approximation confidence intervals for indirect effects (Hayes, 2018, p. 97). Job Level coding: 0 = Staff/Specialist, 1 = Supervisor/Manager, 2 = Director/Senior Manager (consistent with Table 2 coding scheme throughout).