Table 8.

Mediation analysis of comprehensibility (SOC B) on hostility (H)–physical aggression (PA) relationship.

Variable	b	SE	t	p	95% Confidence Interval
					LLCI	ULCI
H → SOC B	−1.2002	0.1928	−6.2264	0.0000	−1.5828	−0.8176
H → PA	0.5052	0.0913	5.5346	0.0000	0.3241	0.6863
H → SOC B → PA	−0.1446	0.0460	−3.1416	0.0022	−0.2359	−0.0532
Effects
Direct	0.3317	0.1033	3.2095	0.0018	0.1266	0.5368
Indirect *	0.1735	0.0657			0.0539	0.3085
Total	0.5052	0.0913	5.5346	0.0000	0.3241	0.6863

* Based on 5000 bootstrap samples. The model explains 34.34% of the variance in the outcome variable.