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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Health Psychol. 2017 Nov 20;37(2):188–193. doi: 10.1037/hea0000558

Table 3.

Causal Effect Decomposition of the Relationship between Exposure to the Power Wall and Future Smoking Susceptibility

Effect type Effect Decomposition
Effect Low CI Up CI p
Hypothesized mediator: Perceived norms
Total effect 14.3% 3.4% 25.2% 0.01
Average causal mediated effect 2.1% 0.1% 5.4% 0.04
Average Causal Direct Effect 12.1% 1.0% 22.9% 0.03

Hypothesized mediator: Perceived accessibility
Total Effect 13.2% 2.0% 24.8% 0.02
Average Causal Mediated Effect −0.7% −3.2% 1.3% 0.53
Average Causal Direct Effect 13.8% 3.0% 25.1% 0.02

Hypothesized mediator: Time spent at the cashier
Total effect 12.8% 1.5% 24.1% 0.03
Average causal mediated Effect 0.9% −1.5% 3.8% 0.43
Average causal direct effect 11.9% 0.4% 23.5% 0.04