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. 2022 Jun 10;8(6):e09676. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e09676

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.