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Published in final edited form as: Med Decis Making. 2018 Oct 20;38(8):1027–1039. doi: 10.1177/0272989X18806493

Table 4.

Mediational pathways – Indirect effect of emotion condition on willingness to use medication through effects on perceived risk (PR).

Risk perception tested	Direct effects					Indirect effect (a*b)
Risk perception tested	Emotion on PR		PR on willingness (b)	Emotion on willingness		Emotion on willingness
	Anger (a_a)	Fear (a_f)	PR on willingness (b)	Anger (c′_a)	Fear (c′_f)	Anger Fear
Conditional on taking pill
1) Affective PR of side effect	0.17^**	0.015	−0.28^***	0.13	0.25^**	−0.047^**	−0.0041
2) Deliberative PR of side effect	0.096^*	0.028	−0.061	0.089	0.28^**	−0.0059	−0.0017
Conditional on not taking pill
3) Deliberative PR of side effect	0.048	0.11^*	0.53^***	0.065	0.21^*	0.026	0.059^*
4) Experiential PR of side effect	0.032	0.13^*	0.37^***	0.069	0.19^*	0.012	0.050^*
5) Affective PR of target condition	0.052	0.12^*	0.37^***	0.062	0.20^*	0.019	0.045^*

p < .05;

^**

p < .01;

^***

p < .001

Parenthetical abbreviations correspond to labels in Figure 2.

All models adjust for age, sex, race/ethnicity, health status, and target health condition.