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. 2019 Feb 13;39(7):1546–1559. doi: 10.1111/risa.13279

Table III.

Nonstandardized Mediation Coefficients Predicting Willingness to Eat (WTE) or Willingness to Drink (WTD) of Different New Food Technology Applications by the Food Disgust Scale (FDS) and the Disgust Response Toward Each Application

FDS → Disgust Response Disgust Response → WTE/WTD Direct Effect: FDS → WTE/WTD Indirect Effect: FDS → Disgust Response → WTE/WTD Disgust Response WTEa/WTDa
B a SE B b SE B c’ SE B a × B b SE 95% CI R 2 R 2
GM meat 8.60 * 1.73 −0.59 * 0.04 −0.76 1.38 −5.07 1.25 (−7.60–−2.67) 0.07 0.39
GM fish 8.53 * 1.68 −0.60 * 0.04 0.34 1.28 −5.13 1.21 (−7.55–−2.78) 0.08 0.42
Nano. film 6.64 * 1.74 −0.42 * 0.05 0.68 1.40 −2.76 0.90 (−4.69–−1.17) 0.04 0.22
Nano. box 6.89 * 1.67 −0.71 * 0.04 −0.22 1.35 −4.87 1.33 (−7.53–−2.31) 0.05 0.46
Art. meat 10.91 * 1.75 −0.63 * 0.05 0.83 1.54 −6.91 1.28 (−9.53–−4.48) 0.11 0.39
Art. milk 7.94 * 1.77 −0.56 * 0.05 2.58 1.55 −4.45 1.10 (−6.65–−2.31) 0.06 0.31
Syn. food additive 5.83 * 1.71 −0.75 * 0.04 −0.65 1.28 −4.39 1.34 (−7.06–−1.82) 0.04 0.52

Note: N = 313. Bold indicates significance. Results based on 10,000 bias‐corrected bootstrap samples. Nonstandardized coefficients can be interpreted in a similar way as regression coefficients.

*p < 0.001.

a

Explained variance by effect B b and B c’.

CI, confidence interval; GM, genetically modified; nano. film, edible nanotechnology coating film; nano. box, nanotechnology food box; art., artificial; syn., synthetic.