Table 7.

Total, direct and indirect links between employee relations and job satisfaction through psychological trust in managers and trust in colleagues.

				Bootstrap 95% Confidence Interval (CI)
Effect [β]	SE	t	p	LLCI	ULCI
Total effect (βyx): Employee relations (X) on job satisfaction (Y)
0.367 Fp = 27.091 *** R2 = 0.110	0.070	5.204	<0.001	0.227	0.505
Direct effect: Employee relations (X) on job satisfaction (Y)
0.167	0.075	2.201	0.028	0.017	0.316
Indirect effect (βyx.m) Employee relations (X) on job satisfaction (Y) through the mediating variables (M)
Interpersonal trust in managers
0.091	0.029			0.042	0.163
Interpersonal trust in colleagues
0.108	0.039			0.045	0.204

Notes: lower level confidence interval (LLCI); upper level confidence interval (ULCI). Number of bootstrap samples for bias corrected bootstrap confidence intervals: 10,000. Level of confidence for all confidence intervals in output: 95%. N = 220, *** p < 0.001.