FIGURE 1.

Significance of associations between CADM2 and risk behavior factors, with and without a mediating effect of risk‐taking proneness. Path a: the effect of the predictor (CADM2) on the mediator (risk‐taking proneness); path b: the effect of the mediator on the outcome factors (tobacco (ab)use, lifetime smoking, and risky alcohol use); path c: the effect of the predictor on the outcome variables; path c': the effect of the predictor on the outcome variables controlling for the mediator. † C′ paths with attenuated p‐values, indicating a partial mediation effect