Table 6.
Multiple mediation analysis.
Path | Indirect effects | Total effects | VAF | Bootstrap 95% |
Confidence Interval |
Mediation |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2.5% | 97.5% | |||||
ATT → PSR → INT | 0.202 | 0.222 | 0.912 | 0.074 | 0.323 | Full Mediation |
CPC - > TRU - > PSR - > INT | 0.207 | 0.624 | 0.332 | 0.135 | 0.297 | Partial Mediation |
CPC - > ATT - > PSR | 0.321 | 0.511 | 0.628 | 0.127 | 0.500 | Partial Mediation |
EXP - > PSR - > INT | 0.153 | 0.590 | 0.260 | -0.281 | -0.050 | Partial Mediation |
CPC - > TRU - > INT | 0.063 | 0.624 | 0.101 | -0.157 | 0.254 | No Mediation |
CPC - > EXP - > PSR | 0.250 | 0.511 | 0.490 | -0.442 | -0.086 | Partial Mediation |
CPC - > TRU - > PSR | 0.441 | 0.511 | 0.862 | 0.276 | 0.595 | Full Mediation |
CPC - > ATT - > PSR- > INT | 0.151 | 0.624 | 0.242 | 0.053 | 0.246 | Partial Mediation |
CPC - > ATT - > INT | 0.015 | 0.624 | 0.023 | -0.168 | 0.143 | No Mediation |
CPC - > EXP - > INT | 0.335 | 0.624 | 0.537 | 0.181 | 0.469 | Partial Mediation |
TRU - > PSR - > INT | 0.298 | 0.362 | 0.823 | 0.175 | 0.389 | Full Mediation |
CPC - > EXP - > PSR - > INT | 0.158 | 0.624 | 0.253 | -0.220 | -0.041 | Partial Mediation |
Note: 1. VAF would be smaller than 0.2 in the presence of a significant indirect effect.
(VAF <0.2 = no mediation; 0.2 ≤ VAF ≤_0.8 = partial mediation; VAF >0.8 = full mediation) (Aparicio et al., 2021).
2. Mediation effects were present when the 95% bootstrap confidence interval did not straddle a 0 between the upper and lower intervals.