Table 5.

Mediating effect of Bootstrap test

Path	Estimate	SE	Bias-corrected			Label
			Lower	Upper	p
pessimism→risk perception→shielding	0.048	0.017	0.019	0.088	0.001	valid
pessimism→negative affect→shielding	0.035	0.02	-0.006	0.073	0.089	invalid
pessimism→risk perception→oversharing	0.164	0.038	0.097	0.245	0.001	valid
pessimism→negative affect→oversharing	-0.002	0.035	-0.073	0.066	0.99	invalid