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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Aug 4.
Published in final edited form as: Ann Behav Med. 2011 Aug;42(1):14–28. doi: 10.1007/s12160-011-9265-1

Table 4.

Mediation of the effect of perceived discrimination (total lifetime exposure, social exclusion, and threat/harassment) on self-reported health through depression, anxiety, and cynical hostility

Point estimate Product of coefficients
Percentile 95% CI
SE Z Lower Upper
Lifetime exposure
Indirect effects
 Depression −0.1036 0.0302 −3.4303 −0.1696 −0.0455
 Anxiety −0.0973 0.0304 −3.2036 −0.1627 −0.0364
 Cynical hostility −0.0647 0.0195 −3.3172 −0.1032 −0.0271
 Total −0.2656 0.0294 −9.0395 −0.3346 −0.2125
Contrasts
 Depression vs. anxiety −0.0064 0.0555 −0.1147 −0.1324 0.0992
 Depression vs. cynical hostility −0.0390 0.0363 −1.0752 −0.1173 0.0355
 Anxiety vs. cynical hostility −0.0326 0.0374 −0.8723 −0.1129 0.0443
Social exclusion
Indirect effects
 Depression −0.0864 0.0252 −3.4337 −0.1505 −0.0388
 Anxiety −0.0796 0.0245 −3.2537 −0.1355 −0.0274
 Cynical hostility −0.0546 0.0159 −3.4411 −0.0874 −0.0260
 Total −0.2205 0.0242 −9.1020 −0.2713 −0.1746
Contrasts
 Depression vs. anxiety −0.0068 0.0453 −0.1492 −0.1111 0.0928
 Depression vs. cynical hostility −0.0318 0.0299 −1.0647 −0.0989 0.0275
 Anxiety vs. cynical hostility −0.0251 0.0303 −0.8272 −0.0964 0.0424
Threat/harassment
Indirect effects
 Depression −0.0647 0.0194 −3.3329 −0.1115 −0.0245
 Anxiety −0.0626 0.0213 −2.9333 −0.1109 −0.0218
 Cynical hostility −0.0376 0.0117 −3.2164 −0.0609 −0.0141
 Total −0.1648 0.0218 −7.5626 −0.2160 −0.1192
Contrasts
 Depression vs. anxiety −0.0022 0.0360 −0.0600 −0.0868 0.0767
 Depression vs. cynical hostility −0.0271 0.0227 −1.1942 −0.0812 0.0207
 Anxiety vs. cynical hostility −0.0250 0.0249 −1.0037 −0.0828 0.0268

CI confidence intervals generated based on 1,000 bootstrap samples