Table 2.

Direct and indirect effects coefficients of the mediation analyses of the relationship between the probability of conception and creative originality and flexibility, with arousal as a mediator and age as a controlled variable.

Pathways	Originality						Flexibility
	b	SE	t	p	CI 95%		b	SE	t	p	CI 95%
					LL	UL					LL	UL
Direct
a	0.012	0.009	1.414	0.158	−0.005	0.029	0.012	0.009	1.414	0.158	−0.005	0.029
b	0.017	0.045	0.383	0.702	−0.071	0.105	0.099	0.085	1.175	0.240	−0.067	0.267
c’	0.069	0.011	6.545	<0.001	0.048	0.089	0.035	0.020	1.748	0.081	−0.004	0.074
c	0.069	0.011	6.578	<0.001	0.048	0.090	0.036	0.020	1.811	0.071	−0.003	0.075
Indirect
	0.000	0.001			−0.001	0.002	0.001	0.002			−0.001	0.005

Note: b = unstandardized mediation coefficient; SE = standard error; t = t-test coefficient; p = level of significance (two-tailed); CI 95% = confidence interval presented as bias-corrected and accelerated 5000 bootstrapping; LL = lower limit; UL = upper limit.