Table 3.
Outcomes of mediation analyses from pain/disability to the three types of pain-related guilt assessing indirect effects of acceptance of pain
| N = 287 | Models without mediator | Models with mediator | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B | B | Bootstrap results for indirect effects (95% CI) | Bootstrap results for indirect effect sizes (95% CI) | |||||||||
| R 2 | c | R 2 | c’ | a | b | ab | Lower | Upper | k 2 | Lower | Upper | |
| Pain-Acceptance-Guilt | ||||||||||||
| Pain-Acceptance-VG | .142*** | .202*** | .208*** | .138*** | −1.49*** | −.043*** | .063*** | .039 | .097 | .116 | .070 | .172 |
| Pain-Acceptance-SG | .195*** | .237*** | .498*** | .102*** | −1.49*** | −.091*** | .135*** | .099 | .173 | .267 | .202 | .329 |
| Pain-Acceptance-MG | .219*** | .242*** | .337*** | .160*** | −1.49*** | −.055*** | .082*** | .054 | .115 | .162 | .116 | .229 |
| Disability-Acceptance-Guilt | ||||||||||||
| Disability-Acceptance-VG | .127*** | .072*** | .172*** | .036* | −.868*** | −.041*** | .036*** | .019 | .055 | .146 | .076 | .219 |
| Disability-Acceptance-SG | .400*** | .127*** | .530*** | .066*** | −.868*** | −.071*** | .061*** | .047 | .078 | .301 | .232 | .365 |
| Disability-Acceptance-MG | .241*** | .095*** | .303*** | .054*** | −.868*** | −.047*** | .041*** | .025 | .056 | .185 | .117 | .257 |
VG verification of pain guilt; SG social guilt; MG managing condition/pain guilt; B unstandardized regression weight; c total effect of predictor on outcome without the mediator in the model; c’ direct effect of predictor on outcome while controlling for the mediator; a effect of the predictor on the mediator; b effect of the mediator on the outcome; ab indirect effect of predictor on outcome thorough the mediator; R 2 amount of variance explained by the model; CI confidence intervals; k 2 effect size
* Significant at p < .05; ** significant at p < .01; *** significant at p < .001