Table 6.
Study 3: Mediation analysis from power to tax honesty intention (THI; standard errors in parentheses).
| Path coefficients | Indirect effects | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| To THI | To IT | To RBT | To AC | To SC | To EC | To VC | Estimate | Sobel Z | Symmetric 95% CI | |
| From covercive power (CP) | 1.02 (0.18) | −0.17 (0.14) | 0.13 (0.12) | 0.74 (1.16) | −0.04 (0.14) | 1.71 (0.18) | −0.05 (0.16) | |||
| From legitimate power (LP) | 0.32 (0.22) | 0.14 (0.14) | 1.71 (0.12) | −1.34 (0.16) | 1.64 (0.14) | 0.42 (0.18) | 1.05 (0.16) | |||
| From implicit trust (IT) | 0.04 (0.06) | |||||||||
| From reason-based trust (RBT) | 0.22 (0.10) | |||||||||
| From antagonistic climate (AC) | −0.04 (0.06) | |||||||||
| From service climate (SC) | −0.05 (0.07) | |||||||||
| From enforced compliance (EC) | −0.03 (0.05) | |||||||||
| From voluntary cooperation (VC) | 0.08 (0.07) | |||||||||
| CP→IT→THI | −0.01 (0.02) | −0.584 | −0.04; 0.01 | |||||||
| LP→IT→THI | 0.01 (0.01) | 0.554 | −0.01; 0.03 | |||||||
| CP→RBT→THI | 0.03 (0.03) | 0.972 | −0.01; 0.08 | |||||||
| LP→RBT→THI | 0.37 (0.17) | 2.174 | 0.10; 0.65 | |||||||
| CP→AC→THI | −0.03 (0.05) | −0.461 | −0.10; 0.04 | |||||||
| LP→AC→THI | 0.05 (0.08) | 0.664 | −0.08; 0.18 | |||||||
| CP→SC→THI | 0.00 (0.01) | 0.265 | −0.02; 0.02 | |||||||
| LP→SC→THI | −0.09 (0.11) | −0.831 | −0.28; 0.10 | |||||||
| CP→EC→THI | −0.05 (0.08) | −0.599 | −0.19; 0.09 | |||||||
| LP→EC→THI | 0.09 (0.08) | −0.581 | −0.05; 0.02 | |||||||
| CP→VC→THI | −0.00 (0.02) | −0.301 | −0.04; 0.02 | |||||||
| LP→VC→THI | 0.09 (0.08) | 1.126 | −0.04; 0.21 | |||||||