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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Educ Psychol. 2014 May 1;106(2):375–389. doi: 10.1037/a0034679

Table 4.

Mediation Analysis

Independent
Variable
(IV)		 Mediating
Variable
(M)		 Dependent
Variable
(DV)		 Effect of
IV on M
(a path)		 Direct
Effect of
M on DV
(b path)		 Total
Effect of
IV on DV
(c path)		 Direct
Effect of
IV on DV
(c′ path)
Generational Status X Condition Course Grade Continuation to Next Semester .07* (.03) .06* (.03) .32** (.11) .29* (.12)

Note. Numbers represent unstandardized coefficients and numbers inside parentheses represent standard errors. Regression analyses include gender and lecture codes as covariates.

*

p ≤ .05;

**

p ≤ .01;

***

p ≤ .001.