Table 5.

Mediation analyses.

Model 1: taking the financial wellbeing as independent variables, food insecurity as mediators and PCS-SF12 as the dependent variable.
	Direct effect			Indirect effect
	Beta	SE	p-value	Beta	Boot SE	Boot CI
Financial wellbeing scale (IFDFW) on PCS-SF12	−0.14	0.26	0.575	0.19	0.08	0.02; 0.36*
Model 2: taking the financial wellbeing as independent variables, food insecurity as mediators as mediators and MCS-SF12 as the dependent variable.
	Direct effect			Indirect effect
	Beta	SE	p-value	Beta	Boot SE	Boot CI
Financial wellbeing scale (IFDFW) on MCS-SF12	1.80	0.34	<0.001	−0.02	0.08	−0.20; 0.14

^*Indicates significant mediation.