. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Nov 20.

Published in final edited form as: Stigma Health. 2019;4(4):462–472. doi: 10.1037/sah0000168

Table 3.

Mediation model of facial masking on quality of life through stigma

	Unstandardized Estimate	SE	t ^a	95% CI

Path a (face → stigma)	0.37	0.06	6.41^***	0.25 – 0.48
Path b (stigma → QoL)	19.29	1.83	10.54^***	15.65 – 22.92
Path c (face → QoL)	7.70	1.47	5.24^***	4.78 – 10.62
Path c’ (face → QoL)	0.64	1.19	0.54	−1.72 – 3.00
Indirect effect (face → stigma → QoL)	7.06	1.54	-	4.27 – 10.30

^***

p < .001

Bias-corrected bootstrapped confidence intervals are used to interpret results for indirect effects instead of inferential tests (Hayes, 2013).