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. 2016 Nov 24;7:1846. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01846

Table 1.

Results of models testing the mediating effect of environmental self-identity on the relationship between environmentally-friendly purchase and positive emotions.

Path A: effect purchase → self-identity Path B: effect self-identity → positive emotions, controlled for purchase Path C: effect purchase → positive emotions, controlled for self-identity Path C': effect purchase → positive emotions Bootstrap results for indirect effect
B SE t B SE t B SE t B SE t ab SE LL 95 CI UL 95 CI
Yes/No environmentally-friendly purchase 0.86*** 0.19 4.46 0.18* 0.08 2.27 –0.14 0.20 –0.72 0.01 0.19 0.05 0.15 0.08 0.03 0.36
Percentage environmentally-friendly purchase 0.01* 0.006 2.24 0.07 0.16 0.45 0.01* 0.006 2.12 0.01* 0.006 2.41 0.0009 0.002 –0.002 0.005

ab, difference between the coefficient of (percentage of) environmentally-friendly purchase (X) in the analysis with (Path C) and the analysis without (Path C') environmental self-identity (M) as a covariate, LL 95 CI, Lower limit of 95% confidence interval; UL 95 CI, Upper limit of 95% confidence interval,

*

p < 0.05,

***

p < 0.001(2-tailed).