Table 3.

Direct and indirect effect

Direct effect	Estimate	SE	t
Public health education → Fear of COVID‐19	−0.50**	0.10	−4.93
Public health education → Psychological capital	0.56**	0.08	6.84
Psychological capital → Fear of COVID‐19	−0.24**	0.07	−3.33
(95% bias‐corrected confidence interval method)
Indirect effect	Effect	S.E	LL, −UL
Public health education → Psychological capital → Fear of COVID‐19	−0.13**	0.05	−0.24, −0.04

N = 243, *P < 0.05; **P < 0.01; LL, lower limit; SE, standard error; UL, upper limit.