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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Sex Res. 2022 May 17;59(7):920–930. doi: 10.1080/00224499.2022.2072799

Table 3.

Total and indirect path coefficients and standard errors in pathways between sex work engagement, intersectional stigma attributions (latent mediator), and psychosocial health syndemic among BMSM in the POWER study, 2014—2017 (n=4430). Beta coefficients and respective standard errors reported.

Contribution of intersectional to the relationship between past-year sex work engagement and psychosocial health syndemic (latent variable)
Predictors and covariates Total effects Indirect effects in model adjusting for mediator (intersectional stigma attributions)
B (SE B) p B (SE B) p Proportion of effect mediated by intersectional stigma (% and 95% CI)
Past-year sex work engagement 0.15 (0.01) <0.001 0.07 (0.00) <0.001 49.0% (47.6%, 50.0%)

Notes: Model adjusted for year, city, income, Hispanic/Latinx ethnicity, HIV positive status, bisexual behavior, and age ≥40. SRMR=0.043; RMSEA=0.068; CFI=0.874; Chi-square=<0.001.