Table 3.

Tests of mediation for cognitive evaluation.

Path	Effect	SE	95% CI
Indirect effect
IND1: PFP → PR → TP	−0.02**	0.00	[−0.02, −0.01]
IND2: PFP → PR → CP	−0.01**	0.00	[−0.01, −0.00]
IND3: PFP → IM → TP	0.05**	0.00	[0.04, 0.06]
IND4: PFP → IM → CP	0.04**	0.00	[0.03, 0.05]
Indirect effect difference
IND1-IND3: PFP → PR → TP- PFP → IM → TP	−0.06**	0.01	[−0.07, −0.05]
IND2-IND4: PFP → PR → CP- PFP → IM → CP	−0.05**	0.00	[−0.06, −0.04]
Direct effect
PFP → TP	0.23**	0.01	[0.21, 0.26]
PFP → CP	0.14**	0.01	[0.11, 0.16]
Total effect
PFP → TP	0.26**	0.01	[0.24, 0.29]
PFP → CP	0.17**	0.01	[0.14, 0.20]

PFP, pay for performance; PR, pressure; IM, intrinsic motivation; TP, task performance; CP, contextual performance.

Estimates were tested for significance using bias-corrected confidence intervals from 20,000 resamples through the R program.

N = 6,054. ^*p < 0.05, ^**p < 0.01.